FCPS TJ Class of 2024 Press Release - Buried; AA Admits "TS" to Mention

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Anonymous wrote:There is something wrong when a district is 35% black/Latino and only 3 or at most 4% of students attending a specialized high school are Black/Latino.

It also should be an almost 40/60 split betweeen female and male students.

On average, Asians are much more interested in math and science than other subjects.
On average, Asians are much more invested in education from a very early age.
On average, males are much more interested in STEM, especially math.

There is something wrong with the fact that very few non-Asian minorities are attending, but the root cause for dealing with that lies in public systems investing money in to help fuel their education from a very early age. But that's only part of it. The other part is up to families and their communities to change their culture to focus on education (this part is pretty hard if they don't have enough means and flexibility to spend enough time with their kids). But... if those two things were to happen, we would see a LOT more black/Latinos applying and being admitted to TJ.

Yeah, we've never heard that one before.

We should not operate a school that gets more resources and offers more resources to one group of students than the rest. If FCPS doesn't change its own culture, it will find itself squarely on the wrong side of history.

Then charge the TJ attendees for the cost of the extra resources used so that it's deemed fair. TJ families are economically well off and wouldn't mind paying a fair cost, to alleviate the burden on the county. But they would absolutely object to shutting down a school focused on academic excellence in the name of equity.

It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

[Anonymous]

"The worst thing you could say about racism, injustice, and inequity is nothing."

- FCPS (Fairfax Schools Equity and Cultural Responsiveness)

"Shut up and leave our 'meritocracy' alone"

- TJHSST

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The worst thing you could say about racism, injustice, and inequity is nothing."

- FCPS (Fairfax Schools Equity and Cultural Responsiveness)

"Shut up and leave our 'meritocracy' alone"

- TJHSST

meritocracy is not racism, injustice or inequity, period!
You can keep barking with your nonsenses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The worst thing you could say about racism, injustice, and inequity is nothing."

- FCPS (Fairfax Schools Equity and Cultural Responsiveness)

"Shut up and leave our 'meritocracy' alone"

- TJHSST

Anything else would be reverse discrimination, or race-conscious admissions. Not sure either would fly legally in a public school. Privates are different.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM and many FCPS parents show a staggering amount of racism against Asian-American students.

This is a two way street if ever there was one. And with what's going on lately, you finally have both East and South Asians on various social media platforms acknowledging their privileged status and their baked-in familial animus towards Latinx and ESPECIALLY Black Americans.

Complete BS - dont impute naked racism to Asians toward black adults or students just because they get into TJ and apply to TJ at higher rates. The affirmative action and how it should be implemented or if there should or shouldn't be explicit racial quotas or racial composition goals is a separate policy and legal debate. BUT is is extremely cowardly and intellectualy lazy to piggy back this debate on top of the police brutality and racism towards colored people issues that are part of the george Floyd protests.

How self-serving can you be?

Recognizing that the privileged at TJ would like to say the Floyd protests are just about police brutality, they have led to a larger discussion about discrimination and racism in our society. In that context, it's pathetic for FCPS to announce this week that there is no place for racism in FCPS while it operates a selective magnet school that extends admission offers to so few black kids they aren't even willing to disclose the exact number.

The advantages that both Asians and whites enjoy relative to URMs in our schools absolutely needs to be on the table NOW.

+1 Make county actually invest in schools in the Eastern part of the county.

FCPS already spends a disproportionate amount of its resources on schools in the eastern part of the county. Whether they spend the money wisely is a different question.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you even want your kids to get in TJ? How can they possibly benefit from this when they can't even survive a semester? Are you gonna further demand TJ to apply a different grading standard to your kids?
It seems that you only care about dumbing down: if I don't get it, nobody else should get it.
you can shut down TJ and tear down this whole country all you want. you're not gonna be better precisely because YOU have been your own problem, not others.
So go ahead to start a revolution or civil war and turn this country into more of a shithole.

Racist Asians are fine with a national debate about racism as long as it’s only white people portrayed as privileged oppressors. They don’t want any attention paid to their own racism, even when it also leads to discrimination against blacks and Hispanics.

I’ve been asking this multiple times in multiple threads and nobody could give me a clear answer: what exactly is the racism that Asians have applied to harm others?

Asserting your culture is better + denigrating the culture of others + opportunity hoarding + opposing affirmative action unless it benefits you = racism.

First, you’re lying and trying to label Asians unfairly so that you could cite yourself later. Most of these are untrue except for
the opposing for AA thing.
Second, do you think Asians created a system to hoard the opportunities for themselves or it’s the result of their hard work? so is working hard racist now?
And affirmative action is racist because it systematically discriminates Asians and whites and discourages merit and hard work. So opposing that is opposing racism.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if TJ people think when Brabrand said there was no room for racism in FCPS he was saying he doesn't see race.

That sh*t isn't going to fly with the NAACP and all the people who are going to hold FCPS to its promises to advance an equity-based agenda.

TJ is a huge problem for FCPS now; it's why they stalled putting out a news release on the most recent admissions and then didn't highlight it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if TJ people think when Brabrand said there was no room for racism in FCPS he was saying he doesn't see race.

That sh*t isn't going to fly with the NAACP and all the people who are going to hold FCPS to its promises to advance an equity-based agenda.

TJ is a huge problem for FCPS now; it's why they stalled putting out a news release on the most recent admissions and then didn't highlight it at all.

Again, just because things didn’t go your way or you didn’t get a free ride like used to, doesn’t mean there is racism.
The real racism is the one you’re currently displaying. So we absolutely disagree with your claim. Go ahead to start the due process or a revolution if you want.

[Anonymous]

This is just awful and benefits no one. Turn TJ back into a neighborhood school. The wealthy TJ kids can opt for private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just awful and benefits no one. Turn TJ back into a neighborhood school. The wealthy TJ kids can opt for private.

Says you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just awful and benefits no one. Turn TJ back into a neighborhood school. The wealthy TJ kids can opt for private.

Start the due process. What are you waiting for!

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been racist. My kid scored higher than every kid in AAP who’s parents I talked to on cogat and the nag and wasnt in the pool. Even the AART was asking the Principal why he wasn’t in the pool. We had to refer him To some committee to get him in. Then once he was in the school did everything they could to try and trick us into pulling him out. As a parent I had to get an attorney just to get the school to stop being extra and racist with my kid. Not saying every school is like this, but there is one in the western part of the county this way. And the people from region 5 will do nothing but try to cover up the BS.

Parent of a Latino kid in AAP in this region. You are 100% correct. The base schools do not want to lose their strongest URM students but a lot of principals can't be bothered to implement LLIV programs or lobby for full-time AARTs. They just cross their fingers that these kids' parents won't appeal. They get away with it more than they should, but they still complain when families leave for the Level IV center or go private. This has been going on for the better part of a decade. It's shameful.

I was under the impression that AAP decisions are made at the central committee level without any input from the base schools except GBRS.

[Anonymous]

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It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

TJ was never meant to be a representative reflection. It is a STEM-focused school that offers top-notch education to all who apply and can get in. If you have evidence that the admissions committee gives preferential treatment to Asians, please publish it. The mere fact that it did not admit enough of a certain ethnic or racial group is not by itself evidence of bias.

Perhaps you should ask yourself - what is it that TJ offers that happens to be SO attractive to Asians and SO unattractive to others?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought they just took the top applicants and that applicants were color-blind. Therefore the top kids (mostly Asians) get in.

The applicants are color-blind? All of them?

Admissions are color-blind.

[Anonymous]

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It's not a private school where the solution to every problem is a charity auction.

It's a public resource that should be operated for the benefit of all who subsidize it.

Whether by design or by default, TJ has sent a clear message to non-Asian kids that they are "less than." Applications are declining rapidly, and blacks, Hispanics and whites are all so dispirited by their admissions odds and what their experience likely would be like even if they were admitted that only 3-5% of eligible students apply. Meanwhile, close to 30% of the Asian 8th graders in the participating jurisdictions apply and over 70% of the admitted students are Asian.

It has been an abject failure as a community institution and FCPS - which can't churn out enough messages these days about its commitment to equity and opposition to racism - does nothing.

TJ was never meant to be a representative reflection. It is a STEM-focused school that offers top-notch education to all who apply and can get in. If you have evidence that the admissions committee gives preferential treatment to Asians, please publish it. The mere fact that it did not admit enough of a certain ethnic or racial group is not by itself evidence of bias.

Perhaps you should ask yourself - what is it that TJ offers that happens to be SO attractive to Asians and SO unattractive to others?

A reasonable chance of getting in if you're Asian and a student body that's over 70% Asian.