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I think that poster was just pointing out the vitriol towards Black people coming from the Asian community. |
How shameless can you be? How do you sleep at night? Do you always project this hard onto others? You're exploiting one racial group that you've already damaged in order to attack a different racial group that you don't like. Using an accusation that has no basis in rational fact. Don't pretend like we don't all know that the TJ changes happened at the behest of a rich White Savior who sends his own kids to private schools. Or that he literally used a fudge factor in his admissions number just to make sure there'd be fewer Asians. |
If the parents have such hostility towards Black and brown people, to the kids at TJ treat them the same way at school? |
Unfortunately yes. You haven’t seen the other threads in AAP? |
Where on earth did this $1,000 sneaker thing start up? I tend to think of myself as fairly plugged on on school views around TJ and other county issues - but the whole $1,000 sneaker thing is new to me!
Is this just like whining about Obama phones only on feet? |
So Asians are are trying to keep Black and brown kids out of TJ/AAP because they think they are taking spots from Asian students, Asian student’s have the same vitriol towards Black and Brown kids at school in TJ/AAP and we have people under this topic trying to convince Black and Brown people to speak out against the county’s initiative to be more inclusive. GTFOH. |
Why are they worried about what somebody else’s shoes cost anyway? |
Because the malicious liberal racists like you claim they need a favor from a racist policy because they couldn't afford the internet access! |
These days high speed internet costs around $50 per month. |
Nope not buying this at all. What you see today - lots of successful Asian students who come from successful Asian families - is the result of those families having grown up with parents who came here from Asian countries and were poor. They had parents who worked at menial and low income jobs and were often the subject of ridicule and taunts because they spoke poor English and looked different. That was Fairfax county in the 70s/80s. All those parents knew was go to school, work hard, get the best grades, go to the best school, education is the way up. Over time their kids success translated into opportunities and more families saw this and told their kids this was the ticket to a better future. We keep creating programs to help students and we keep insisting that the problem is their parents job, their background, the achievement gap, the way the tests are worded, minimum wage, not enough wages, the police, and every single other thing and the answer isn't in any of those things. Families and the communities those families live in have to value education so much and value the chance for a better future, that they put education as the biggest and most important value in their everyday life. The resources are there. The opportunities are there. But to see them and realize them one has to be willing to look for them at the sake of other things like sports, shopping, beauty, recreation, tv, video games, |
Boom, mic drop! One can't become educated if they do not put much value on education. |
The bolded is the type of Asian student that many people think of when they think of TJ. This is an inspiring story and one that certainly exists in the TJ community - but it is a very small percentage of the "Asian" TJ demographic. Additionally, these families - while there is a population center in Annandale - are relatively well-spread out amongst Northern Virginia and are not targeted by the TJ admissions changes. Indeed, they may benefit from them because of the impact on other demographics. The far larger portion of the "Asian" TJ demographic consists of very affluent, well-educated, and relatively recent immigrants, mostly from India. These families came to the Northern Virginia area specifically for the combination of access to TJ and the Dulles tech boom about 10-15 years ago. They quickly consolidated into housing and worship communities and are concentrated heavily in Herndon, Chantilly, Ashburn, and South Riding. It is a matter of common understanding at TJ that these communities are extremely invested in TJ and academic prestige as a whole and work very hard to position themselves and their friends' children for the TJ admissions process from an early age - even during pregnancy. It's beyond obvious to any sophisticated observer of the TJ admissions situation that these families - not the Chinese or Koreans or Vietnamese - are the ones who are targeted by the admissions policy changes. Different people can fall on different sides of the discussion of whether or not that's a positive, but that's the reality of the situation and ignoring it is silly. |
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Asian (and especially South Asian) students are the plurality groups at the school, and thus they set the culture and the tone of what goes on there. The students are generally very open about the behaviors and prejudices of their parents and generally speaking, students are not held responsible for their parents' embarrassing attitudes because they are quite pervasive - for example, comparing to see whose parent said the most racist thing. It's a thing TJ students joke about fairly comfortably within the walls of the school building. |