Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

Good grades, test scores, and showing interest should be enough. Having a private tutor or being interested in math competitions should not be a qualifier. I’m an new poster btw.

You said "test scores." So you are in favor of an admissions test. That's a great idea, an admisison test. Take the subjectivity out of it.

Correct. But a middle schooler doesn’t need to know above grade level content. That just pushes parents into prepping.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sin thinking about it some more, I’ll anticipate that the plaintiffs will prevail in lower court, get reversed by the appellate court, and the Supreme Court will reverse the appellate court. It’ll be the key affirmative action case. It’ll be narrow because Robertas likes narrow rulings.

My prediction. The court says the 1.5% rule can stay, the "experience factor" has to go.

1.5% rule is fine, as long as they actually take the most qualified 1.5%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

I agree, have a lottery, which is what we have. You make sure kids meet a base amount of academic achievement and then lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

I agree, have a lottery, which is what we have. You make sure kids meet a base amount of academic achievement and then lottery.

Agree. It will quell over the top acceleration which has gotten out of hand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

I understand you making a case against all the prepping, but you are acting as if there is NOTHING at all that qualifies a kid for TJ. If you think that every single STEM achievement counts for nothing, then just have a lottery.

Every kid has access to a public HS. No kid has access to all public HSs.

Good grades, test scores, and showing interest should be enough. Having a private tutor or being interested in math competitions should not be a qualifier. I’m an new poster btw.

You said "test scores." So you are in favor of an admissions test. That's a great idea, an admisison test. Take the subjectivity out of it.

DP. Test scores could be pass advance on math SOLs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sin thinking about it some more, I’ll anticipate that the plaintiffs will prevail in lower court, get reversed by the appellate court, and the Supreme Court will reverse the appellate court. It’ll be the key affirmative action case. It’ll be narrow because Robertas likes narrow rulings.

My prediction. The court says the 1.5% rule can stay, the "experience factor" has to go.

If the per school allocation stays but the experience factor goes, that's still a huge loss for the plaintiffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

The high percentage of Asians was a symptom of a deeper problem. Any change to admissions would inevitably reduce the percentage of Asians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

The high percentage of Asians was a symptom of a deeper problem. Any change to admissions would inevitably reduce the percentage of Asians.

Wow. You sure think you know everything, when you so obviously don't. In fact, some changes to admissions could have increased the percentage of Asians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

The high percentage of Asians was a symptom of a deeper problem. Any change to admissions would inevitably reduce the percentage of Asians.

Deeper problem is your prejudiced mind. Look in a mirror and have the courage to admit it to yourself at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

The high percentage of Asians was a symptom of a deeper problem. Any change to admissions would inevitably reduce the percentage of Asians.

Wow. You sure think you know everything, when you so obviously don't. In fact, some changes to admissions could have increased the percentage of Asians.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

The high percentage of Asians was a symptom of a deeper problem. Any change to admissions would inevitably reduce the percentage of Asians.

Deeper problem is your prejudiced mind. Look in a mirror and have the courage to admit it to yourself at least.

She’s right. Unless you don’t think cheating is a problem I guess. The prep places boasted huge success and were predominantly Asian kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well. They checked all the boxes. Not sure how a 7% ELL (???? Which makes no sense given the honors English requirements and lack of ELL services) survives. Or How TJ supports a jump from 2% FARMs to 25% FARMs— especially given the parent supports, carpools, etc required.

Thank god my kid graduated in 2020. They now have equity. All the kids I know got WL’d, including some blowing pre-Calc out of the water in Middle School and with state and national STEM awards. But hey— equity y’all.

Your example is why there needed to be a change. Why should kids need to be in precalc in MS in order to gain access to a public HS? And you think TJ should not admit FARM students because they might not be able to carpool to after school events? SMH.

No one needs to be in pre calc to access a public school. The pre calc kids, though, need to be in a school like TJ so they can take advantage of all of the really cool post calc math classes. The very small handful of kids doing pre calc in 8th are brilliant at math and love all things math. That sounds like an excellent candidate for TJ.

Now that TJ has accepted so many Algebra 1 kids and so few Algebra 2 or pre calc kids, will they no longer have the critical mass needed to offer their broad array of post calc math classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians from 73 percent to around 54 percent. Wow. One group really took a hit here.

Discrimination

Yep. FCPS is going to spend so much money losing this lawsuit.

So you're saying FCPS can never make changes to TJ that impact the percent of Asian students? It can't decide to better serve all of fairfax county instead of having a few feeder schools account for a vast majority of the slots? Good luck with that argument. Disparate impact is not per se illegal.

FCPS and SB can't say that the stated intent is to reduce the percentage of Asian students and then go on to explicitly act on that. Anyone with decency and empathy can see that it is just plain wrong. And maybe even illegal.

The high percentage of Asians was a symptom of a deeper problem. Any change to admissions would inevitably reduce the percentage of Asians.

Deeper problem is your prejudiced mind. Look in a mirror and have the courage to admit it to yourself at least.

She’s right. Unless you don’t think cheating is a problem I guess. The prep places boasted huge success and were predominantly Asian kids.

Shut down the prep places as you call it if it is cheating. You can't explicitly target a group in a public institution. That is illegal.