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FCPS TJ Class of 2024 Press Release - Buried; AA Admits "TS" to Mention
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Anonymous
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How proud FCPS must be at this moment in our nation's history to bury its press release about the new TJHSST Class of 2024 on its website!
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students As black Americans and their allies work to promote anti-racist change, FCPS kicks the can down the road by offering admission at TJ to so few of the 160 black applicants that the number of black students admitted was reported as "TS" - "too small" to disclose given supposed privacy concerns. Shame on FCPS for perpetuating inequality. Shame on the School Board members for tolerating it. The protesters circling the White House might want to take a field trip to Alexandria soon. |
Anonymous
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I don’t like your last sentence. Threats of violence are never acceptable. The rest is fine. |
Anonymous
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There is a difference between protest and violence. Do not conflate the two.
The number of applications this year declined from 2766 to 2539. |
Anonymous
| In MCPS schools "too small to disclose" means 5 or less. |
Anonymous
| OP, I don’t think that TJ admissions are as important for others as they are for you. That said, yes, I support NYC style reforms. The buck stops with admissions to elite schools — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote movingly about the need for URMs to gain acceptance to our elite academic institutions. |
Anonymous
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It was important to the NAACP when they filed a complaint with the DOE.
A 237-student drop in applications is fairly large. There are more 8th graders in FCPS this year than last year so an increase would have been expected. |
Anonymous
| FCPS and TJ do a lot of outreach. What are you suggesting? Race based admission? |
Anonymous
Yup. |
Anonymous
It has been declining for awhile. |
Anonymous
The protesters at the White House aren't the violent one. The violence is coming from inside the White House. |
Anonymous
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This starts early. Look at the middle schools with “too few to list” as their total admits. Those are the ones with the highest black student percentage. Then look at AAP admits by elementary school, and see that whiter parts of the county have more AAP students. It’s not necessarily TJ discriminating, it’s black students lacking early opportunities.
I taught in a middle school with a large percentage of POC. When it came time for TJ admission applications, they didn’t have the resume of ECs and summer camps that the white kids did. We need to start targeting these kids young if we want them to gain admission and be successful at TJ. |
Anonymous
| TJ is a destination for Asian students (who apparently have the highest qualifications for admittance) and other ethnic groups see and understand and opt not to apply. |
Anonymous
Yep, this is the issue. Black parents need to step it up. The schools are telling Asian parents to prep their kids, get them in AAP, send them to tutoring and so on. They are learning this through word of mouth. |
Anonymous
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The press release notes that TS means 10 or fewer. And that those students are included in the 29 "multiracial/other" category. Impossible for me to know how many "multiracial/other" kids might be considered black (by others, since they chose to identify as multiracial).
The number of black kids at TJ is very small. In my son's class (which has just graduated) there are fewer than 10 black kids (according to my son, at least). Its not a good situation, but the solution is not to shut the school down or have different standards for admission.
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Anonymous
Thereby setting them up for failure? Who does that help? |