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Washington Post Slams FCPS for Racist Magnet School
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Anonymous
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The Post came down very hard, and deservedly so, on Fairfax County this week for its segregated academy named after Thomas Jefferson. Time for major reform is long overdue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-virginia-school-shows-that-racial-inequities-arent-confined-to-the-justice-system/2020/07/27/e8a95732-af75-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html |
Anonymous
Very interesting article. The Post had a similar article in June. This also seems to potentially shed some light on the Appeals Decisions this year. I agree, reform is needed. I believe more funds need to be invested in growing the AAP Program and creating additional space so that there is enough room, despite ethnicity. Children should not be denied educational opportunities due to race/ethnicity, whether that be in an underrepresented minority or an overrepresented one. |
Anonymous
| The message is going to be that it’s time to stop making excuses. Reform the admissions process now or forfeit the right to operate a magnet. Scott Surovell and others have lost patience and Dick Saslaw is an aging dinosaur with diminishing influence. |
Anonymous
| It amazes me that the Washington Post has been writing this same article, with variations, for the past 20 years. Either it's changed, it hasn't and it should, or it hasn't and it shouldn't. |
Anonymous
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Are you all anti-Asian?
That’s what I’m getting from this. Let’s not pit different communities against each other. Entrance to selective magnets should always be merit based. |
Anonymous
| If you create additional space, do you think the new students will mirror those already there or do you think there is a giant group of diverse students just shy of admission? I think the former is probably more likely. If you want it to be diverse, open it to lottery, just don't be shocked when it plummets in quality |
Anonymous
I feel like .. it’s same thing. any sports team should open to the space for Asian regardless their results especially for basketball and ice hockey. They should admit races have their own strengths. But regarding TJ test prep, it should open to any kids in Fairfax county and support especially kids who can’t afford it with low income. |
Anonymous
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It may be time to reform admissions to TJ but not because it's racist.
Are they nuts? |
Anonymous
Are you saying that only Asians are smart enough to go to TJ? That is ridiculous. The problem is that Fairfax has set up a system that rewards the most intense and driven PARENTS of smart kids. |
Anonymous
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So merit based underrepresentation is bad but income based (Home values that lead to underrepresentations in schools like Langley and McLean) is good?
Or are you all on board with countywide redisricting now? |
Anonymous
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Americans care nothing for academic excellence. Why don’t you admit proportional numbers of all ethnicities on basketball teams and other sports teams, and then we can talk about schools. |
Anonymous
Maybe you didn’t read the article but in this case, merit= the ability to pay thousands of dollars in prep courses, tutoring, and other enrichment activities. “Merit” also = having parents rich enough to buy houses in the TJ feeder middle school zones. |
Anonymous
All I want, for the sake of this country, is to encourage academic excellence. Americans are really destroying their future by not valuing this enough. So you can give an IQ test to all candidates if you want, and make outreach efforts in the surrounding communities to get those candidates. The cognitive batteries are really impossible to prep for, despite all the businesses that claim success in such endeavors. I know, this was part of research work I did some years ago. The rich family who spends thousands on test prep is pissing away their money. It’s the intellectual bent and work ethic that families teach their kids that makes the difference, past a certain level of intelligence. |
Anonymous
Stop playing this game of equating the efforts to address discrimination towards Black and Hispanic children with being "anti-Asian." That's what TJ defenders of the status quo do constantly in an effort to get the moderators to lock and delete threads about TJ. We know that's your game and, while it may work here, it clearly is not going to work much longer before the state assembly. |
Anonymous
+1000 Asians are seriously under-represented in sports. Re higher education, Asians need to score upto 450 point higher on the SAT than non-asian applicants [ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/23/letter-asians-need-to-score-140-points-higher-than-white-applicants/ ] TJ isn't Harvard, where you can get in way easier if your parents went, or if you play a sport. WAPO, please go after legacy admissions, which are the complete opposite of merit based. Let us have this - we worked really hard for it. |