This Virginia high school led the nation with six perfect AP test scores

[Anonymous]

NP here. There was zero educational need for TJ when it was founded in the late 80s. It was entirely a marketing gimmick by the county Board of Supervisors to try and persuade tech companies, many on the West Coast, to open regional offices in Tysons and those awful office parks off Route 28 and the Dulles Toll Road.

It's sad to see that, almost 30 years later, Tysons is reinventing itself, no one wants to work in those horrid office parks in Chantilly any more, and parents are now at each other's throats about a magnet school that has become a silly brass ring, even though the vast majority of TJ kids would have done just as well at their base schools and probably would have learned more humility along the way.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe the complaint is that people on here are racist against Asians! Implying that there is no racial bias, then you are saying that whites blacks and Hispanics are intellectually inferior. That's disgusting.

There is test prepping going on, and a substantial dedication to the cause of getting into TJ. Kudos to those who get in. They have made sacrifices. I wouldnt call that pure merit by a long shot. With that said, my kids would never apply, they have an interest in STEM but It's pretty clear kids like mine aren't wanted there anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. There was zero educational need for TJ when it was founded in the late 80s. It was entirely a marketing gimmick by the county Board of Supervisors to try and persuade tech companies, many on the West Coast, to open regional offices in Tysons and those awful office parks off Route 28 and the Dulles Toll Road.

It's sad to see that, almost 30 years later, Tysons is reinventing itself, no one wants to work in those horrid office parks in Chantilly any more, and parents are now at each other's throats about a magnet school that has become a silly brass ring, even though the vast majority of TJ kids would have done just as well at their base schools and probably would have learned more humility along the way.

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