Miyares is right about discrimination

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Anonymous wrote:No application means No interest in STEM! FRM or not is irrelevant, FCPS cant hand out offers without application interest.

Cry all you want, but offers will overwhelmingly go to the top feeder schools with most applications demonstrating a ton of STEM interest.

And yet, the whiners are still here complaining.

Trying to spin up some votes.

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Anonymous wrote:97% of FRM dont apply to TJ, are not showing interest in advanced STEM learning, and are happy at base school. How is that relevant to FCPS making offers to high-achieving students from top feeder schools to pursue the more rigorous curriculum offered at TJ?

Fiction.

TJ should be accessible to the whole community, not just wealthy families at a handful of feeder schools.

Ok. Who is stopping the remaining 99% from applying? Where is the STEM interest?

Do they know about TJ?
Do they know how to apply?
Do they know how to prepare for admissions?
Was there a lot of STEM programming at their ES or MS to pique their interest?
Do they have a parent who works in STEM to guide them?

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile Black families would just like to be statistically represented at TJ while AA families are complaining about making up less than 70% of the school population.

But legit question. What would you say is keeping black families from being statistically represented at TJ under the old admissions through demonstrated achievement and high test scores model?
Racism?
Discrimination?
Is there something keeping black, Hispanic, and white students in fcps from achieving the same high test results and merit standards as the Asian students? And what would that be?
Is it possible that the family’s focus and orientation in the home toward supporting and expecting high academic success plays a more significant role in Asian American households?
And if so, shouldn’t we be trying to study that and then encourage non-Asian families to emulate those values and practices to yield similar results rather than re-orient the entire admissions system to artificially capture different demographics?

I think most Americans view the hyper fixation that some Asian families place on academics as not a positive approach that needs modeling and further encouragement

Taking Algebra I in 7th and performing well on a test like PSAT 8/9, ACT Aspire, or SHSAT don't require hyper fixation on academics. They just require the kid to be reasonably smart and reasonably into academics. Yet, if these were used for TJ admissions, Asians would dominate.

I'm white, so I don't necessarily understand the degree to which Asian families are focused on academics. What I do see is that white people want to have their cake and eat it too. We rewrite the rules so that whenever we don't want our kids to put in the work, they still can get the accolades. I don't want my kids spending absurd amounts of time on outside academics, but I accept that my kids should lose out to the kids who are putting in the time and are objectively better.

Some of it is culturally exclusive to America. middle class immigrants from pretty much everywhere have a high degree of focus on academics.

Asians of almost all socioeconomic classes from Confucian cultures have a high degree of focus on academics because academic merit was, and still is, the predominant pathway to social mobility for the last thousand+ years.

If you are a middle class Asian immigrant from a comfortable culture, it borders on psychosis or religious faith.

I have no idea what drives the south Asians but right now they're out-working everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Let kids follow what they're genuinely interested in. If students loves STEM and demonstrate readiness, let them dive into it. Same goes for sports—leave it to the kids who are passionate and want to push themselves to the next level. And if a child is drawn to the arts, support them in exploring that path. There’s really no need to track and analyze student’s ethnicity in these interest areas.

Trying to force kids into certain interest areas just to check a box for diversity doesn’t help anyone. Support interests, dont limit or admit based on politics.

Tracking and analyzing children’s skin color is a passion for democrats. They love to divide children into separate “baskets.” They are obsessed with skin color over fairness.

Notice how it was the most politically-extreme democrats on the all-democrat School Board who rammed through the TJ changes right in the middle of the Covid pandemic crisis?

SB chair Karl Frisch was first elected to the SB after leaving his full-time job as a democrat public policy advocate. He has attempted to use his position as a mere stepping-stone to higher office as a democrat. He does not even have children, let alone children in FCPS. Until he completed a correspondence-degree last year, he didn’t even have a college degree.

His political campaign funding does not come from within FFX county. It does not even form from Virginia; the majority of his campaign money comes from the West Coast, where he promotes himself as a partisan activist.

Then Frisch gave away much of that money to candidates like Kyle McDaniel, who is under multiple fraud investigations.

These democrats are the people who schemed to alter the TJ admissions policy to try to excluded as many Asian / Indian students as they could get away with.

RWNJs are pushing their nuttery hard today.

Getting nervous about November?

Trying to label easily-verifiable facts as “nuttery” exposes you as a mere left wing nut job and not a serious person, PP.

I’ll take that as a yes.

Republicans are trying to spin up all of this nuttery because they know they are going to get creamed in November.

You think this argument about woke racism is new?

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Anonymous wrote:Let kids follow what they're genuinely interested in. If students loves STEM and demonstrate readiness, let them dive into it. Same goes for sports—leave it to the kids who are passionate and want to push themselves to the next level. And if a child is drawn to the arts, support them in exploring that path. There’s really no need to track and analyze student’s ethnicity in these interest areas.

Trying to force kids into certain interest areas just to check a box for diversity doesn’t help anyone. Support interests, dont limit or admit based on politics.

Tracking and analyzing children’s skin color is a passion for democrats. They love to divide children into separate “baskets.” They are obsessed with skin color over fairness.

Notice how it was the most politically-extreme democrats on the all-democrat School Board who rammed through the TJ changes right in the middle of the Covid pandemic crisis?

SB chair Karl Frisch was first elected to the SB after leaving his full-time job as a democrat public policy advocate. He has attempted to use his position as a mere stepping-stone to higher office as a democrat. He does not even have children, let alone children in FCPS. Until he completed a correspondence-degree last year, he didn’t even have a college degree.

His political campaign funding does not come from within FFX county. It does not even form from Virginia; the majority of his campaign money comes from the West Coast, where he promotes himself as a partisan activist.

Then Frisch gave away much of that money to candidates like Kyle McDaniel, who is under multiple fraud investigations.

These democrats are the people who schemed to alter the TJ admissions policy to try to excluded as many Asian / Indian students as they could get away with.

RWNJs are pushing their nuttery hard today.

Getting nervous about November?

democrats calling fellow democrats as RWNJ is crazy nuttiness!

Whatever you say, Asra.

If it smells like an orange turd then it probably votes for the orange turd.

Wait are you talking about asra nomani?

THIS asra nomani?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asra_Nomani

Your proud of pushing a woman like this into Trump's arms? WTF is wrong with you?

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile Black families would just like to be statistically represented at TJ while AA families are complaining about making up less than 70% of the school population.

This is kind of the issue right. I mean it's kind of hard to cry discrimination when you are grossly overrepresented in the environment you claim has and is discriminating against you.

At some point the golden goose is going to get cooked, the baby will get thrown out with the bathwater, and TJ will be no more or will have a full on race blind 100% lottery admissions policy. Anyone with a GPA above a certain point will be offered the chance to apply, and all admissions will be pulled out of a hat. At that point levels will more adequately reflect the demographic makeup of the county. Win/win.

The forces aligned against merit have existed for generations. You seem to be saying that if we don't feed the beat at least a little bit by letting more undeterred URM in, we could lose the whole thing.

I would say that we should have an education system that prepares URM to get in under their own steam without favor or charity.

Well, yes.

When 20% of the population is taking 70% of the seats, there is going to be a backlash especially when the rules are set by democratically elected board members.
We live in a democracy and that means that results have to be acceptable to the majority regardless of who deserves what.
Having a selective school be 70% asian in an area where the population is like 20% asian just isn't acceptable.
And crying about merit isn't going to change that.

You seem to be having a problem accepting what FCPS is confirming with its own actions. There is not as much interest in advanced STEM education among various ethnic groups as the asian american students. For 550 seats, from entire 5 participating counties there are less than a 1000 non-asian american applicants. So when 1600+ asian american applicants are stepping up to study and learn STEM subjects at TJ's in-depth rigor, FCPS is glad to respond by extending offers to about 340 of them. Different ethnic student group have different interests, and FCPS accommodates their interests accordingly.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2029

+1 Math and science, especially at TJ, is tough. And a there are a lot of parents and kids out there, of all stripes, that don't have it in them to prepare for that kind of education. They'd rather take their kids out of school to travel, or have them spend summers at the pool, or just relax and be kids. I don't necessarily fault them for that, but you can't "push in" kids who aren't qualified and don't have the drive and preparation for the rigor that they will face at TJ. Can't have it both ways. I'm thinking mainly of my white friends and neighbors, but it applies to URMs as well.

You are trying hard to stir up the forum suggesting Asian Americans should point fingers at Whites for the problems at TJ. It's not working

There didn't used to be a "problem" at TJ. Kids who qualified chose to work their butts off, had a long school day, and worked really hard at academics. My kids didn't want that, spent time with sports, PT jobs, other activities, and a lot of hanging out with friends and family. I didn't see them passionate enough about STEM to put the effort in and excel at TJ, so I was okay with it. Instead they thrived in their base school (still well ranked) and went to pretty decent universities and had the collegiate experience. I think they were a little surprised upon graduation to find the wide gulf between their liberal arts salaries and those of their friends who had more technical majors, but each launched and is living a happy, fulfilling life.

Kids were cheating to get in.

This is why trump won the election. A population that thinks studying is immoral.

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Anonymous wrote:Let kids follow what they're genuinely interested in. If students loves STEM and demonstrate readiness, let them dive into it. Same goes for sports—leave it to the kids who are passionate and want to push themselves to the next level. And if a child is drawn to the arts, support them in exploring that path. There’s really no need to track and analyze student’s ethnicity in these interest areas.

Trying to force kids into certain interest areas just to check a box for diversity doesn’t help anyone. Support interests, dont limit or admit based on politics.

Tracking and analyzing children’s skin color is a passion for democrats. They love to divide children into separate “baskets.” They are obsessed with skin color over fairness.

Notice how it was the most politically-extreme democrats on the all-democrat School Board who rammed through the TJ changes right in the middle of the Covid pandemic crisis?

SB chair Karl Frisch was first elected to the SB after leaving his full-time job as a democrat public policy advocate. He has attempted to use his position as a mere stepping-stone to higher office as a democrat. He does not even have children, let alone children in FCPS. Until he completed a correspondence-degree last year, he didn’t even have a college degree.

His political campaign funding does not come from within FFX county. It does not even form from Virginia; the majority of his campaign money comes from the West Coast, where he promotes himself as a partisan activist.

Then Frisch gave away much of that money to candidates like Kyle McDaniel, who is under multiple fraud investigations.

These democrats are the people who schemed to alter the TJ admissions policy to try to excluded as many Asian / Indian students as they could get away with.

RWNJs are pushing their nuttery hard today.

Getting nervous about November?

democrats calling fellow democrats as RWNJ is crazy nuttiness!

This is how we lost elections. Just keep kicking everybody out of the tent and then wonder why they won't vote for your candidates

Grow TF up and vote like an adult.

It really wasn’t a hard choice in 2024.

Hard at work losing the next election I see.

You are the reason we lost

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile Black families would just like to be statistically represented at TJ while AA families are complaining about making up less than 70% of the school population.

This is kind of the issue right. I mean it's kind of hard to cry discrimination when you are grossly overrepresented in the environment you claim has and is discriminating against you.

At some point the golden goose is going to get cooked, the baby will get thrown out with the bathwater, and TJ will be no more or will have a full on race blind 100% lottery admissions policy. Anyone with a GPA above a certain point will be offered the chance to apply, and all admissions will be pulled out of a hat. At that point levels will more adequately reflect the demographic makeup of the county. Win/win.

The forces aligned against merit have existed for generations. You seem to be saying that if we don't feed the beat at least a little bit by letting more undeterred URM in, we could lose the whole thing.

I would say that we should have an education system that prepares URM to get in under their own steam without favor or charity.

Well, yes.

When 20% of the population is taking 70% of the seats, there is going to be a backlash especially when the rules are set by democratically elected board members.
We live in a democracy and that means that results have to be acceptable to the majority regardless of who deserves what.
Having a selective school be 70% asian in an area where the population is like 20% asian just isn't acceptable.
And crying about merit isn't going to change that.

You seem to be having a problem accepting what FCPS is confirming with its own actions. There is not as much interest in advanced STEM education among various ethnic groups as the asian american students. For 550 seats, from entire 5 participating counties there are less than a 1000 non-asian american applicants. So when 1600+ asian american applicants are stepping up to study and learn STEM subjects at TJ's in-depth rigor, FCPS is glad to respond by extending offers to about 340 of them. Different ethnic student group have different interests, and FCPS accommodates their interests accordingly.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2029

+1 Math and science, especially at TJ, is tough. And a there are a lot of parents and kids out there, of all stripes, that don't have it in them to prepare for that kind of education. They'd rather take their kids out of school to travel, or have them spend summers at the pool, or just relax and be kids. I don't necessarily fault them for that, but you can't "push in" kids who aren't qualified and don't have the drive and preparation for the rigor that they will face at TJ. Can't have it both ways. I'm thinking mainly of my white friends and neighbors, but it applies to URMs as well.

You are trying hard to stir up the forum suggesting Asian Americans should point fingers at Whites for the problems at TJ. It's not working

There didn't used to be a "problem" at TJ. Kids who qualified chose to work their butts off, had a long school day, and worked really hard at academics. My kids didn't want that, spent time with sports, PT jobs, other activities, and a lot of hanging out with friends and family. I didn't see them passionate enough about STEM to put the effort in and excel at TJ, so I was okay with it. Instead they thrived in their base school (still well ranked) and went to pretty decent universities and had the collegiate experience. I think they were a little surprised upon graduation to find the wide gulf between their liberal arts salaries and those of their friends who had more technical majors, but each launched and is living a happy, fulfilling life.

Kids were cheating to get in.

This is why trump won the election. A population that thinks studying is immoral.

DP. I corrected for you:
- Trump won because people believe his lies.
- Nobody thinks that studying is immoral.

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Anonymous wrote:Let kids follow what they're genuinely interested in. If students loves STEM and demonstrate readiness, let them dive into it. Same goes for sports—leave it to the kids who are passionate and want to push themselves to the next level. And if a child is drawn to the arts, support them in exploring that path. There’s really no need to track and analyze student’s ethnicity in these interest areas.

Trying to force kids into certain interest areas just to check a box for diversity doesn’t help anyone. Support interests, dont limit or admit based on politics.

Tracking and analyzing children’s skin color is a passion for democrats. They love to divide children into separate “baskets.” They are obsessed with skin color over fairness.

Notice how it was the most politically-extreme democrats on the all-democrat School Board who rammed through the TJ changes right in the middle of the Covid pandemic crisis?

SB chair Karl Frisch was first elected to the SB after leaving his full-time job as a democrat public policy advocate. He has attempted to use his position as a mere stepping-stone to higher office as a democrat. He does not even have children, let alone children in FCPS. Until he completed a correspondence-degree last year, he didn’t even have a college degree.

His political campaign funding does not come from within FFX county. It does not even form from Virginia; the majority of his campaign money comes from the West Coast, where he promotes himself as a partisan activist.

Then Frisch gave away much of that money to candidates like Kyle McDaniel, who is under multiple fraud investigations.

These democrats are the people who schemed to alter the TJ admissions policy to try to excluded as many Asian / Indian students as they could get away with.

RWNJs are pushing their nuttery hard today.

Getting nervous about November?

democrats calling fellow democrats as RWNJ is crazy nuttiness!

Whatever you say, Asra.

If it smells like an orange turd then it probably votes for the orange turd.

Wait are you talking about asra nomani?

THIS asra nomani?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asra_Nomani

Your proud of pushing a woman like this into Trump's arms? WTF is wrong with you?

GMAFB. She has been hard core Trumper for almost a decade. And she uses slimy tactics to get airtime on FoxNews.

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Anonymous wrote:Let kids follow what they're genuinely interested in. If students loves STEM and demonstrate readiness, let them dive into it. Same goes for sports—leave it to the kids who are passionate and want to push themselves to the next level. And if a child is drawn to the arts, support them in exploring that path. There’s really no need to track and analyze student’s ethnicity in these interest areas.

Trying to force kids into certain interest areas just to check a box for diversity doesn’t help anyone. Support interests, dont limit or admit based on politics.

Tracking and analyzing children’s skin color is a passion for democrats. They love to divide children into separate “baskets.” They are obsessed with skin color over fairness.

Notice how it was the most politically-extreme democrats on the all-democrat School Board who rammed through the TJ changes right in the middle of the Covid pandemic crisis?

SB chair Karl Frisch was first elected to the SB after leaving his full-time job as a democrat public policy advocate. He has attempted to use his position as a mere stepping-stone to higher office as a democrat. He does not even have children, let alone children in FCPS. Until he completed a correspondence-degree last year, he didn’t even have a college degree.

His political campaign funding does not come from within FFX county. It does not even form from Virginia; the majority of his campaign money comes from the West Coast, where he promotes himself as a partisan activist.

Then Frisch gave away much of that money to candidates like Kyle McDaniel, who is under multiple fraud investigations.

These democrats are the people who schemed to alter the TJ admissions policy to try to excluded as many Asian / Indian students as they could get away with.

RWNJs are pushing their nuttery hard today.

Getting nervous about November?

democrats calling fellow democrats as RWNJ is crazy nuttiness!

This is how we lost elections. Just keep kicking everybody out of the tent and then wonder why they won't vote for your candidates

Grow TF up and vote like an adult.

It really wasn’t a hard choice in 2024.

Hard at work losing the next election I see.

You are the reason we lost

No, the reason why “we” lost is because too many idiots believed that Trump would do something about egg prices.

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Anonymous wrote:Let kids follow what they're genuinely interested in. If students loves STEM and demonstrate readiness, let them dive into it. Same goes for sports—leave it to the kids who are passionate and want to push themselves to the next level. And if a child is drawn to the arts, support them in exploring that path. There’s really no need to track and analyze student’s ethnicity in these interest areas.

Trying to force kids into certain interest areas just to check a box for diversity doesn’t help anyone. Support interests, dont limit or admit based on politics.

Tracking and analyzing children’s skin color is a passion for democrats. They love to divide children into separate “baskets.” They are obsessed with skin color over fairness.

Notice how it was the most politically-extreme democrats on the all-democrat School Board who rammed through the TJ changes right in the middle of the Covid pandemic crisis?

SB chair Karl Frisch was first elected to the SB after leaving his full-time job as a democrat public policy advocate. He has attempted to use his position as a mere stepping-stone to higher office as a democrat. He does not even have children, let alone children in FCPS. Until he completed a correspondence-degree last year, he didn’t even have a college degree.

His political campaign funding does not come from within FFX county. It does not even form from Virginia; the majority of his campaign money comes from the West Coast, where he promotes himself as a partisan activist.

Then Frisch gave away much of that money to candidates like Kyle McDaniel, who is under multiple fraud investigations.

These democrats are the people who schemed to alter the TJ admissions policy to try to excluded as many Asian / Indian students as they could get away with.

RWNJs are pushing their nuttery hard today.

Getting nervous about November?

Trying to label easily-verifiable facts as “nuttery” exposes you as a mere left wing nut job and not a serious person, PP.

I’ll take that as a yes.

Republicans are trying to spin up all of this nuttery because they know they are going to get creamed in November.

You think this argument about woke racism is new?

The narrative gets recycled every election.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Talk to me when Asian Americans at TJ drop to the same percentage of Asian Americans in FCPS. The amount of complaining that the 1.5% guarantee at every MS cost Asian Americans 30 seats at TJ is astonishing.

DP, and E Asian. +1. The old system was stacked unfairly in favor of S Asians, mainly because one prep center was giving the actual questions to their prep students before sitting the TJ exam. (Sure, FCPS should have detected the problem before the TJ students who benefited outed their prep center on Facebook, but sadly apparently FCPS didn’t.). The current TJ admissions system is not perfect, but provides a wildly more level playing field.

+1000 so true

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile Black families would just like to be statistically represented at TJ while AA families are complaining about making up less than 70% of the school population.

This is kind of the issue right. I mean it's kind of hard to cry discrimination when you are grossly overrepresented in the environment you claim has and is discriminating against you.

At some point the golden goose is going to get cooked, the baby will get thrown out with the bathwater, and TJ will be no more or will have a full on race blind 100% lottery admissions policy. Anyone with a GPA above a certain point will be offered the chance to apply, and all admissions will be pulled out of a hat. At that point levels will more adequately reflect the demographic makeup of the county. Win/win.

The forces aligned against merit have existed for generations. You seem to be saying that if we don't feed the beat at least a little bit by letting more undeterred URM in, we could lose the whole thing.

I would say that we should have an education system that prepares URM to get in under their own steam without favor or charity.

Well, yes.

When 20% of the population is taking 70% of the seats, there is going to be a backlash especially when the rules are set by democratically elected board members.
We live in a democracy and that means that results have to be acceptable to the majority regardless of who deserves what.
Having a selective school be 70% asian in an area where the population is like 20% asian just isn't acceptable.
And crying about merit isn't going to change that.

You seem to be having a problem accepting what FCPS is confirming with its own actions. There is not as much interest in advanced STEM education among various ethnic groups as the asian american students. For 550 seats, from entire 5 participating counties there are less than a 1000 non-asian american applicants. So when 1600+ asian american applicants are stepping up to study and learn STEM subjects at TJ's in-depth rigor, FCPS is glad to respond by extending offers to about 340 of them. Different ethnic student group have different interests, and FCPS accommodates their interests accordingly.

https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2029

+1 Math and science, especially at TJ, is tough. And a there are a lot of parents and kids out there, of all stripes, that don't have it in them to prepare for that kind of education. They'd rather take their kids out of school to travel, or have them spend summers at the pool, or just relax and be kids. I don't necessarily fault them for that, but you can't "push in" kids who aren't qualified and don't have the drive and preparation for the rigor that they will face at TJ. Can't have it both ways. I'm thinking mainly of my white friends and neighbors, but it applies to URMs as well.

You are trying hard to stir up the forum suggesting Asian Americans should point fingers at Whites for the problems at TJ. It's not working

There didn't used to be a "problem" at TJ. Kids who qualified chose to work their butts off, had a long school day, and worked really hard at academics. My kids didn't want that, spent time with sports, PT jobs, other activities, and a lot of hanging out with friends and family. I didn't see them passionate enough about STEM to put the effort in and excel at TJ, so I was okay with it. Instead they thrived in their base school (still well ranked) and went to pretty decent universities and had the collegiate experience. I think they were a little surprised upon graduation to find the wide gulf between their liberal arts salaries and those of their friends who had more technical majors, but each launched and is living a happy, fulfilling life.

Kids were cheating to get in.

This is why trump won the election. A population that thinks studying is immoral.

If only everyone could study the test questions :/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:97% of FRM dont apply to TJ, are not showing interest in advanced STEM learning, and are happy at base school. How is that relevant to FCPS making offers to high-achieving students from top feeder schools to pursue the more rigorous curriculum offered at TJ?

Fiction.

TJ should be accessible to the whole community, not just wealthy families at a handful of feeder schools.

Ok. Who is stopping the remaining 99% from applying? Where is the STEM interest?

Do they know about TJ?
Do they know how to apply?
Do they know how to prepare for admissions?
Was there a lot of STEM programming at their ES or MS to pique their interest?
Do they have a parent who works in STEM to guide them?

What does any of this have to do with FCPS making offers to only those students that apply? FRM or non-FRM: No application, no offer! As simple as that.