Article on TJ student

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can’t say I’m surprised that an article about the painful and unnecessary discrimination that a Black girl encountered at a TJ devolved into the usual “Indians at TJ are darker than the Chinese” trope. As if that really addresses the problems there.

Well, you are one ones focused on skin color. So of course you should care. There are some really dark indians.

[Anonymous]

For Dark skin kids from recent immigrant families, do you really have to divide them based on where their family come from? A kid from Sudan, Yemen, Indian, or Thai may have same supportive parents who care education. If you look close at the student body at Tj, I bet over 50 or 70% students are from first generation of immigrant families. Should that be labeled unequal to students who families have been living on this land more than three generation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The TJ student has made it very clear she is in favor of the lottery.

People who claim you should read her story, but then reject what she's fighting for, are trying to have their cake and eat it, too.

You can empathize with a person's plight but also not agree with their solution. Why is the lottery the only solution?

How about finding other means of increasing URM representation?

Off the top of my head you could go with Superintendent's plan to pick a group of 100 students factoring SES, sending school, and ESL.

Then pick the rest of the students using the old system.

That should get you increased URM representation without the need for a lottery.

Why is a lottery seen as a holy grail?

In part because it fully avoids the creation of a new two-track student body at TJ. There is obviously already enough crap going on about who does and doesn't "belong" at TJ. The 100/400 proposal would not solve that problem, and we all know that Student 401 from Carson will file a lawsuit claiming he should be at TJ rather than Student 1-100.

What are you talking about? There are no tracks at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

Are not this country making decision based on a small group opinions? What's new?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

The School Board has heard about the systemic issues for some time from a large number of students, alumni, and parents. You just don't like what they have to say, or that the Post chose to profile one student's experience to put a human face on it.

It's not as if the anti-change crowd at TJ doesn't have its own spokespeople, including the Coalition for TJ and Asra Nomani, who churns out new articles on a daily basis that are widely circulated in conservative circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

The School Board has heard about the systemic issues for some time from a large number of students, alumni, and parents. You just don't like what they have to say, or that the Post chose to profile one student's experience to put a human face on it.

It's not as if the anti-change crowd at TJ doesn't have its own spokespeople, including the Coalition for TJ and Asra Nomani, who churns out new articles on a daily basis that are widely circulated in conservative circles.

TJ should be closed and converted into a local high school, and the money redistributed back to the other high schools. TJ no longer benefits the community at large, it was a great idea that has been hijacked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

The School Board has heard about the systemic issues for some time from a large number of students, alumni, and parents. You just don't like what they have to say, or that the Post chose to profile one student's experience to put a human face on it.

It's not as if the anti-change crowd at TJ doesn't have its own spokespeople, including the Coalition for TJ and Asra Nomani, who churns out new articles on a daily basis that are widely circulated in conservative circles.

The state and the SB did not seek a range of opinions when considering changes to admissions all summer! The rest of us only heard about it one week prior to the lottery proposal ( that Brabrand planned to force through with only 3 weeks public notice!) that we should write to the board. And I am not a conservative!

[Anonymous]

Oh, and the very vocal alumni group represents a tiny percentage of TJ alums. Definitely not a majority opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

The School Board has heard about the systemic issues for some time from a large number of students, alumni, and parents. You just don't like what they have to say, or that the Post chose to profile one student's experience to put a human face on it.

It's not as if the anti-change crowd at TJ doesn't have its own spokespeople, including the Coalition for TJ and Asra Nomani, who churns out new articles on a daily basis that are widely circulated in conservative circles.

TJ should be closed and converted into a local high school, and the money redistributed back to the other high schools. TJ no longer benefits the community at large, it was a great idea that has been hijacked.

Sure - your kid didn’t get in so there must be something wrong with the school - tear it all down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

The School Board has heard about the systemic issues for some time from a large number of students, alumni, and parents. You just don't like what they have to say, or that the Post chose to profile one student's experience to put a human face on it.

It's not as if the anti-change crowd at TJ doesn't have its own spokespeople, including the Coalition for TJ and Asra Nomani, who churns out new articles on a daily basis that are widely circulated in conservative circles.

TJ should be closed and converted into a local high school, and the money redistributed back to the other high schools. TJ no longer benefits the community at large, it was a great idea that has been hijacked.

Sure - your kid didn’t get in so there must be something wrong with the school - tear it all down

DP. Is this your response to every comment about TJ that isn’t over the top praise?

Agree with PP. TJ should serve the local community again. What’s there now is simply unacceptable.

[Anonymous]

Now the liberals have taken over it's trash j

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was upset that the article characterized an entire school as racist. I have a minority student and that is not DC experience at all

+1. This article took one teenage girl’s opinion on her experience and pretended that it was fact and then characterized the whole school as something. The girl is entitled to her opinion but why is no one else’s opinion being presented? My kids did not agree with her depictions of TJ and the comments here undoubtedly from people with no experience at TJ are shockingly racist towards people of Asian origin.

The School Board has heard about the systemic issues for some time from a large number of students, alumni, and parents. You just don't like what they have to say, or that the Post chose to profile one student's experience to put a human face on it.

It's not as if the anti-change crowd at TJ doesn't have its own spokespeople, including the Coalition for TJ and Asra Nomani, who churns out new articles on a daily basis that are widely circulated in conservative circles.

TJ should be closed and converted into a local high school, and the money redistributed back to the other high schools. TJ no longer benefits the community at large, it was a great idea that has been hijacked.

Sure - your kid didn’t get in so there must be something wrong with the school - tear it all down

DP. Is this your response to every comment about TJ that isn’t over the top praise?

Agree with PP. TJ should serve the local community again. What’s there now is simply unacceptable.

You calling to tear TJ down isn’t a ‘slightly lacking in praise’ comment about TJ you do realize that don’t you. When you say TJ no longer benefits the community, that’s nonsense - it’s obviously benefiting a lot of kids. You don’t like the kids it’s benefiting and you think they don’t deserve the school. That is what you find unacceptable. That is the root of your concern, and you’re camouflaging it by pretending to care about the ‘community’

[Anonymous]

It’s a weird synergy, perhaps, of white parents who either don’t care or are jealous and Asian Americans who weren’t able to mobilize (or were unwilling to mobilize) to fight this. That strategy, if it was one, was a miscalculation because, again, very few white people care about opposing a lottery.