Northam’s “Anti-Asian, Anti-Immigrant” School Initiative

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Partly this is because qualification for NMSF is entirely based on PSAT scores and the one thing you must be in order to get into TJ is a strong test taker.

That doesn't mean that they're not amazingly bright and hardworking, as you said, just that the population is selected on that criteria so it's sort of a fait accompli that they'll do well on tests.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

At some level? At what level is the quote not true?

You took the quote out of context. Do you believe none of the students at the IB schools mentioned could have succeeded at TJ?

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

[Anonymous]

Scott Surovell is such a crybaby. Why doesn’t he ask his good buddy Karen Corbett Sanders how wasting $35-40 million of taxpayer money on a huge expansion at West Potomac to keep kids from having to attend Mount Vernon HS is going to help MVHS.

https://twitter.com/ssurovell/status/1304752737238822912?s=21

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

I think typically, 100% of the PWCS nmsf are TJ students.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

This will decrease by at least 50% once the admissions standards are changed to increase URMs.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

Around 7% of the TJ NFSFs are from Arlington. Arlington county had 18 total NMSFs, with TJ accounting for 9 of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scott Surovell is such a crybaby. Why doesn’t he ask his good buddy Karen Corbett Sanders how wasting $35-40 million of taxpayer money on a huge expansion at West Potomac to keep kids from having to attend Mount Vernon HS is going to help MVHS.

https://twitter.com/ssurovell/status/1304752737238822912?s=21

I don’t even understand his point. What does TJ admissions have to do with NMSF at the named schools? Why isn’t he comparing numbers to other FCPS high schools?

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

This will decrease by at least 50% once the admissions standards are changed to increase URMs.

FCPS had 25 fewer NMSFs than last year, entirely due to TJ. TJ had 25 fewer NFSFs.

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Anonymous wrote:Asra Nomani is a nominally Muslim woman born in Mumbai who voted for Donald Trump, argued in favor of his ban on immigration from select Muslim-majority countries, and supports racial profiling against Muslims. Her views on Islam are fairly well-understood as "Islam should change fundamentally from what it has been for millenia" - why she feels the need to continue to self-identify with a religion she disagrees with on such a visceral level is a mystery to most who follow her career.

She currently has a senior at TJ and has been, very vocally and very recently, thunderously in support of the very narrow definition of merit that has been peddled by those seeking to maintain the status quo with respect to TJ admissions, and those seeking to break down the recent improvements in elite college admissions. It is no accident that she has taken up this mantle as her son begins the college application process.

She carries over 50,000 followers on Twitter due to her past as a professor at Georgetown and as a Wall Street Journal contributor. Both associations ended poorly. Her Twitter feed reads very much like Trump's - vicious, insecure, self-serving, jingoistic, and full of retweets of literally any account (human or bot) that appears to agree with her. Seemingly her favorite tactic is to intentionally misinterpret the arguments and intentions of anyone who disagrees with her and to lampoon them publicly.

Key example - she is claiming right now that the TJ PTSA is banned from these conversations. It is only Asra who is banned, but her intent is to inflame public opinion against meaningful change by claiming that Secy. Qarni is banning the entire TJ PTSA from the sessions. It's a clever tactic, and one that might be successful with an increasingly myopic community, but it's severely disingenuous and a perfect example of how she operates.

Neither her views on Islam (I mean, what exactly are your credentials to assess them) nor her political affiliation should be a factor in the decision to allow or to ban her from these proceedings. Half the country voted for Trump - will you ban them too? What is this discrimination based on political views?

Did I say anything about the merits of her being banned? Crucially, I did not. The purpose of the biographical information is to provide context for her perspective. I am in favor of her being banned because of her inflammatory and derogatory rhetoric on various social media platforms which insinuates that Black and Hispanic students are inherently less qualified than Asian students - which I view as a moral rather than a political issue - but in this particular post I did not reference the merits of her being banned.

I would similarly argue that anyone who believes that slavery was a good thing should probably not have a voice in conversations about Confederate monuments.

Interrelating conversations don't happen when everyone thinks the same thing.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

Around 7% of the TJ NFSFs are from Arlington. Arlington county had 18 total NMSFs, with TJ accounting for 9 of them.

Only 4 from TJ this year - 3% of the total.

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The vast majority of TJ seniors are not NMSF.

At some level that's true. But somewhere between a 1/3 and 1/4 of TJ seniors are NMFS (about 130 out of a class of 430). Its an amazingly bright and hardworking collection of students.

Vast overwhelming majority of fcps nmsf are TJ students.

What percentage of the TJ NMSFs are from LCPS, APS, or any other non-fairfax regions? How lopsided are the NMSFs when you only look at true FCPS kids and exclude the TJ kids from elsewhere? I thought last year, about 60% of the FCPS NMSFs were at TJ and the other 40% were scattered across the remaining high schools.

It's probably closer to 70-75%. Only 3% of the NMSFs from TJ this year are from Arlington. Assume there are more from Loudoun and maybe Prince William, but not up to 40%.

Around 7% of the TJ NFSFs are from Arlington. Arlington county had 18 total NMSFs, with TJ accounting for 9 of them.

Only 4 from TJ this year - 3% of the total.

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