To all those complaining about the TJ lottery

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Heads up to all those calling this off topic and low key asking for it to get deleted: I am not OP but I am fascinated by this thread. I also work for a moderate circulation DC paper. If this thread gets deleted I will write an article about white fragility using this thread getting deleted as an example

Just let it ride and deal with it, you fragile wasp creeps.

Oooohhhh, scary! Halloween has come early to DCUM.

By a self-proclaimed fulltime blogger!! As if social media and mass media have any integrity. And citing DCUM as journalism?? Haha haha! What an “industry.”

[Anonymous]

Merit is no longer an American value.
Whining certainly is though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Boy you have a major chip on your shoulder as obvious from your post. I suggest you get help for your issues with this and your insecurities.

Disregarding this deeply childish post, what do you actually think the humanities are? In the modern parlance, they can really only be understood as the establishment of a canon of ideas and works that perpetuate Western cultural hegemony. Otherwise the study of literature and the arts literally makes no sense. "Decolonizing" the humanities renders the field totally incoherent. It makes teaching them a whole lot easier though, I bet. You only need a Soc 101 course instead of a M.A. or Ph.D. in a complex subfield.

Take it from someone who went to an Ivy

I received my PhD at an Ivy. You have NO idea what is going on in the humanities, and you obviously have a political axe to grind. It's not about throwing out the baby with the bathwater, as you seem to suggest. It's about creating a more inclusive, complete understanding of the human experience in literature. Your attempt to pathetically put the focus back on white men outs you as the virtual Klansman that you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eliminating the test entrance requirements actually qualifies more kids all around—not just AA kids so I don’t see how having a lottery will magically create ethnic diversity. My kids went to a NOVA K-8 and everyone there takes either Algebra 1 or Geometry in 8th and tons of kids have a 3.5 or higher. Now they are all qualified for TJ?

If it’s in such high demand it would seem like a better move to create a second TJ campus in DC.

It's paid for by the state of Virginia though, as a governor's school.

[Anonymous]

Who is complaining about a TJ lottery on the private school forum? Raise your hand. I'm not. No one I know is. Let it go, OP. Take your talk somewhere else.