TJ Falls to 14th in the Nation Per US News

[Anonymous]

What's done is done; let's move on with 14th ranking. However, TJ needs to make sure Algebra 1 students receive ample remedial help not three months later, but from day one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"test buying" racist has been posting racist message for years

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/jforum.page?module=search&action=search&search_forum=60&match_type=all&sort_by=time&search_keywords=test+buying+

The individual has been using "test buying" as a cover to malign students enrolled in outside enrichment programs, effectively attacking Asian Americans.

No. You are making the race association.

Who benefited the most from the change?
“low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” - court of appeals

[Anonymous]

Ignore the poster who says "test buying". Many kids don't use these extra tutors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"test buying" racist has been posting racist message for years

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/jforum.page?module=search&action=search&search_forum=60&match_type=all&sort_by=time&search_keywords=test+buying+

The individual has been using "test buying" as a cover to malign students enrolled in outside enrichment programs, effectively attacking Asian Americans.

No. You are making the race association.

Who benefited the most from the change?
“low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” - court of appeals

court of appeals is bunch of characters. However,
"On February 25, 2022, federal judge Claude Hilton ruled that Fairfax County school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements to deliberately reduce the number of Asian American students enrolled."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's done is done; let's move on with 14th ranking. However, TJ needs to make sure Algebra 1 students receive ample remedial help not three months later, but from day one.

If they need remedial help, they are doomed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's done is done; let's move on with 14th ranking. However, TJ needs to make sure Algebra 1 students receive ample remedial help not three months later, but from day one.

If they need remedial help, they are doomed.

I see TJ lowering homework and test requirements to help these kid. Standard will continue to slip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"test buying" racist has been posting racist message for years

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/jforum.page?module=search&action=search&search_forum=60&match_type=all&sort_by=time&search_keywords=test+buying+

The individual has been using "test buying" as a cover to malign students enrolled in outside enrichment programs, effectively attacking Asian Americans.

No. You are making the race association.

Who benefited the most from the change?
“low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” - court of appeals

court of appeals is bunch of characters. However,
"On February 25, 2022, federal judge Claude Hilton ruled that Fairfax County school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements to deliberately reduce the number of Asian American students enrolled."

Yes, Hilton did write that opinion. And the appeals court that he spent 41 years of his career trying to qualify for - and failing to do so - threw out his ruling and thoroughly embarrassed him in the process.

There is a reason he was stuck at the District level for his entire career.

[Anonymous]

The process of using SES and geographical criteria as a proxy for race is not some new groundbreaking concept. Also eliminating testing helps with this as well.

Many institutions have considered these strategies in a post-Affirmative action world

As long as the people involved don't explicitly state that is the reason for the change, I don't think there is a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"test buying" racist has been posting racist message for years

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/jforum.page?module=search&action=search&search_forum=60&match_type=all&sort_by=time&search_keywords=test+buying+

The individual has been using "test buying" as a cover to malign students enrolled in outside enrichment programs, effectively attacking Asian Americans.

No. You are making the race association.

Who benefited the most from the change?
“low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” - court of appeals

court of appeals is bunch of characters. However,
"On February 25, 2022, federal judge Claude Hilton ruled that Fairfax County school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements to deliberately reduce the number of Asian American students enrolled."

Yes, Hilton did write that opinion. And the appeals court that he spent 41 years of his career trying to qualify for - and failing to do so - threw out his ruling and thoroughly embarrassed him in the process.

There is a reason he was stuck at the District level for his entire career.

Was that what your brigade told you to say? And if his ruling was the other way, Hilton is the best equity judge ever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"test buying" racist has been posting racist message for years

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/jforum.page?module=search&action=search&search_forum=60&match_type=all&sort_by=time&search_keywords=test+buying+

The individual has been using "test buying" as a cover to malign students enrolled in outside enrichment programs, effectively attacking Asian Americans.

No. You are making the race association.

Who benefited the most from the change?
“low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” - court of appeals

court of appeals is bunch of characters. However,
"On February 25, 2022, federal judge Claude Hilton ruled that Fairfax County school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements to deliberately reduce the number of Asian American students enrolled."

Yes, Hilton did write that opinion. And the appeals court that he spent 41 years of his career trying to qualify for - and failing to do so - threw out his ruling and thoroughly embarrassed him in the process.

There is a reason he was stuck at the District level for his entire career.

Was that what your brigade told you to say? And if his ruling was the other way, Hilton is the best equity judge ever?

No one involved with this process was the "best equity judge ever". Hilton's opinion was essentially a copy-and-paste of the Coalition's arguments, which were then eviscerated by data in Heytens' concurrence in the Fourth Circuit's original decision to grant the emergency stay that allowed the process to continue, and again in his opinion overturning Hilton's error.

Hilton wrote a bad opinion, and in so doing provided evidence of why he's been stuck at the bottom rung of the federal judiciary for his whole career. No more, no less. Thankfully, the only impact it had was to delay the admissions process for the Class of 2026 slightly.

[Anonymous]

TJ teachers are frustrated with the new batch of underperforming students including the ones that cheat.

[Anonymous]

How pathetic School Board uses SES as a smoke screen to engage in racial balancing. Even more pathetic is the equity minion on this forum who keeps using SES disingenuously to disparage hardworking merit students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How pathetic School Board uses SES as a smoke screen to engage in racial balancing. Even more pathetic is the equity minion on this forum who keeps using SES disingenuously to disparage hardworking merit students.

Call me crazy, but I believe that underprivileged socioeconomic status and merit aren't mutually exclusive.

The problem is that you see only a narrow range of metrics by which you want to try to identify merit - and my guess is that that narrow range is one that happens to be favorable to you or your group in some way.

I don't think the new admissions process is perfect by any means, but the products of it are changing TJ for the better. Hopefully the new process will continue to be tweaked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ teachers are frustrated with the new batch of underperforming students including the ones that cheat.

TJ teachers have always been frustrated with underperforming students and cheating was a much larger and more significant topic of conversation before the changes to the admissions process.

Wasn't that long ago that an entire batch of AP exam results had to be thrown out because of cheating at TJ - but it was before the admissions changes.

TJ engaged with the Challenge Success program all the way back in 2018, in large part because of rampant academic integrity issues.

Stop pretending that any cheating that's taken place is attributable to the admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"test buying" racist has been posting racist message for years

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/jforum.page?module=search&action=search&search_forum=60&match_type=all&sort_by=time&search_keywords=test+buying+

The individual has been using "test buying" as a cover to malign students enrolled in outside enrichment programs, effectively attacking Asian Americans.

No. You are making the race association.

Who benefited the most from the change?
“low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” - court of appeals

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