Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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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.

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.

You do understand that school and education prepares you for life, right? Or is that not allowed too, unless it suits you? Where does it end?

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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.

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.

You do understand that school and education prepares you for life, right? Or is that not allowed too, unless it suits you? Where does it end?

Education does a poor job of preparing you for life when you aren’t exposed to different perspectives. It was a problem when TJ was mostly white, and it’s a problem now that TJ is mostly Asian.

[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.

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.

I've always found it incredibly racist to assume that different skin colors mean different perspectives, or at least different perspectives worth sharing in an academic context. "We eat tacos at home because my dad is from mexico." "We eat bratwurst because my dad is from germany." Wow kids, now you're ready to go change the world! Please, be the lead engineer designing my next car!
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.

You do understand that school and education prepares you for life, right? Or is that not allowed too, unless it suits you? Where does it end?

Education does a poor job of preparing you for life when you aren’t exposed to different perspectives. It was a problem when TJ was mostly white, and it’s a problem now that TJ is mostly Asian.

[Anonymous]

I've always found it incredibly racist to assume that different skin colors mean different perspectives, or at least different perspectives worth sharing in an academic context. "We eat tacos at home because my dad is from mexico." "We eat bratwurst because my dad is from germany." Wow kids, now you're ready to go change the world! Please, be the lead engineer designing my next car!

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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.

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

This was not a lottery. They deliberately chose the less advanced kids over the more advanced. What kind of a Governor's School does that?

[Anonymous]

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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.

This was not a lottery. They deliberately chose the less advanced kids over the more advanced. What kind of a Governor's School does that?

Accelerated != more merit.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This was not a lottery. They deliberately chose the less advanced kids over the more advanced. What kind of a Governor's School does that?

That's not true. Many STEM award winners were accepted. Maybe not your child? Maybe they did not want to go and have been pushed by you for so many years to prep for TJ that you thought you could will it to happen.

[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.

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.

You do understand that school and education prepares you for life, right? Or is that not allowed too, unless it suits you? Where does it end?

Education does a poor job of preparing you for life when you aren’t exposed to different perspectives. It was a problem when TJ was mostly white, and it’s a problem now that TJ is mostly Asian.

Twisted logic to discriminate against a racial group.

[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.

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

This was not a lottery. They deliberately chose the less advanced kids over the more advanced. What kind of a Governor's School does that?

A expressly stated racist one

[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.

Why don't FCPS move some TJ programs/labs to base schools ...so all schools will become equal..

[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.

Why don't FCPS move some TJ programs/labs to base schools ...so all schools will become equal..

I don’t get why you post this in so many different forms. TJ is a Governor’s School in FCPS. It is meant to have specialized equipment and classes. Not to mention many of those programs are funded by private companies.

[Anonymous]

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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.

What will you use as evidence of interest though? Someone saying they are interested? It seems to me you're arguing against kids who have done anything to pursue that interest. What exactly qualifies as interest? Sitting by the window and dreaming of math?

[Anonymous]

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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.

You do understand that school and education prepares you for life, right? Or is that not allowed too, unless it suits you? Where does it end?

Education does a poor job of preparing you for life when you aren’t exposed to different perspectives. It was a problem when TJ was mostly white, and it’s a problem now that TJ is mostly Asian.

Twisted logic to discriminate against a racial group.

Or the product of lived experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've always found it incredibly racist to assume that different skin colors mean different perspectives, or at least different perspectives worth sharing in an academic context. "We eat tacos at home because my dad is from mexico." "We eat bratwurst because my dad is from germany." Wow kids, now you're ready to go change the world! Please, be the lead engineer designing my next car!

You know what else is funny? The insistence that "diverse perspectives" prepare you for life. The world is getting more homogenous not less, if you stay within your SES zone. I work for an international organization where people represent all countries of the world, but everyone has gone to the same twenty or so schools. A Nigerian LSE graduate works quite nicely with a British LSE graduate. But not with working class people of their own countries.

[Anonymous]

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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.

We accelerate our children to stretch their brains, not to increase their TJ changes. We aren't planning to apply.