TJ entrance test answers were never for sale
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Anonymous
Blanket accusations of cheating are racist and is how liberal white supremacists cope with asians outperforming white kid academically. Racially motivated admissions changes are part of the reason why we have this clown in the white house. |
Anonymous
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Wealthy parents of all races were gaming the system. It wasn't about race.
It was about expanding access to TJ beyond a handful of wealthy feeder schools. |
Anonymous
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We have Trump because Americans are dumb AF and believed the RWNJ propaganda.
Like all of the BS around education. |
Anonymous
If they want to give IQ tests then they can give high g loaded standardized tests that do not require secrecy. |
Anonymous
It's was primarily about race. The FCPS board was concerned with the racial representation at TJ. That's what we heard during the headings, that's what we heard during the board meetings, that is what they commissioned reports to determine. Race was the primary driver. |
Anonymous
Either the majority of voters are RWNJ or you lost a lot of moderate voters with your left wing orthodoxy. Pretending that the change in the TJ test wasn't about race is so blatantly dishonest that you will lose some voters forever. |
Anonymous
I get that math is hard for MAGA but Trump didn’t win a majority. The admissions process was changed for a variety of reasons. |
Anonymous
There were a bunch of reasons that they changed the admissions, race being one, specifically increasing the number of Black students. Also increasing interest and applications which had been declining, especially in schools that did not traditionally send students to TJ throughout the county and region. And addressing cheating both in admissions and by admitted students all 4 years. Etc. |
Anonymous
Trump won 49.8% of the vote. Calm down. You can stop foaming at the mouth. |
Anonymous
Can someone please explain f*k'n once and for all what is meant—word by word—by "wealthy. feeder. school."? And how exactly do you want to expand? Would turning TJ into a base school with free lunch make you happy? |
Anonymous
It might about the race, because over decade long ago, while TJ prep test was not a thing, asian representation was never at over 70%, it might go hand in hand? |
Anonymous
So the quest is to admit more from "dumb" schools and "weak" schools? A race to the bottom? |
Anonymous
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the terms “buying test answer” that often mentioned here. I even believe that you understand what it actually means and you just play dumb. It is a test prep that has TJ test bank (means test with similar pattern on questions). You pay them.. they will teach and train and repeat and train and repeat until your kid very familiar with that type of questions. And no, it is not the same with $20 amazon book. (I can’t believe that I have to answer this). |
Anonymous
Most of the families doing that are hoping to end up at a private school with a strong basketball program to play in college on scholarship. That said, the public schools don't promote any sport. PE is the only physical class that kids have and the school is not requiring that kids take PE every day. Nor do the schools offer Gen Ed PE, Advanced PE, and the like. Sports are an extra curricular. STEM classes, math and science, are required classes. It is not unreasonable to make TJ available to all strong STEM students across the county. The 1.5% distribution is meant to open TJ to all the MS and I don't think it is unreasonable. Some of these changes were in response to a threatened lawsuit by NAACP over the lack of representation of Black students at TJ. While the percentage of Asian students dropped with the 1.5% redistribution, Asian students are still the majority by far. The dropping of the Quant test can easily be tied to the test banks, which plenty of TJ students have discussed. They did provide a leg up to students whose parents were willing to pay to attend the classes at the schools with the test banks. And those classes were not inexpensive. They were more expensive then similar AoPS or RSM classes that are offered. People knew what they were paying for and were willing to do so to improve the chances that their kid was accepted at TJ. Do I think that the TJ requirements today could be adjusted? Yes. I think that math grades should include an additional weight based on the highest level math at a given school. Students at schools that offer Algebra 2 should have a weight applied to their scores, maybe a point, and students who took Geometry at that school .5 points. Not every school is able to offer Algebra 2, so students at those schools would see a 1 weighted to the geometry kids. Heck, .5 points if you want to use a universal weight. That .5 would help the geometry students move up in the 1.5% ranking at their school be be more evenly weighed against the rest of the county. The GPA to apply should be a 3.75 and students should have taken all honors/AAP classes. You could include the SOL scores for the 7th grade classes. |
Anonymous
Trump won, that's what matters and people like you handed him the voters he needed. The change to the admissions process was primarily about race. Every hearing, every board meeting, every report are primarily focused on racial diversity. |