I see what you’re trying to do there, but maybe the damage to the “brand” was done when the far-left Virginia DOE head, Atif Qarni, began to attack the school, Principal B rebuked students as “privileged,” and an FCPS School Board member called the school “toxic” in public, and the TJ AAG lined up speakers to demand an end to merit-based admissions in favor of “diversity.” |
If any of those things actually happened, the audience for them was infinitesimal compared with the mob that's going to come after TJ kids if Tucker Carlson calls attention to the fact-free diatribe the Post just published. I assume you're one of the co-authors? It's incredibly dangerous when a parent within a school community is also chasing clout in the rightwing media ecosystem. TJ may be burned to the ground metaphorically as a result. |
I think you are the one who needs to watch your metaphors. And, no, I’m not a co-author of the WaPo piece. You simultaneously claim that it’s going to be read by a large audience and that anyone who agrees with any of the points made by the authors is one of them? |
The Post clearly should stick to publishing lie-filled steaming piles of horseshit from left-wing lunatics. How's that no-lab leak story going?
BTW, Oberlin flushed their reputation long before Fox allegedly went after them (not that Fox singled out Oberlin at all.). Ever heard of Gibson's Bakery? |
False. Aspects of the toxic environment have existed since the late 1990s, but have exploded in the period since about 2010 as Evan Glazer remade the school in his image from a high school to a research facility. |
And this is now at least the third op-ed the Post has published using these same individuals' completely baseless talking points. The lawyer even fed George Will's research assistant/ghostwriter the exact same drivel. Take heart, though: the TJ story never gains traction among the Republican troll armies because it doesn't really fit with the white nationalist and authoritarian narratives Fox News pushes in its quest to weaken democracies. |
Fox News doesn’t have a ton of interest in aggrieved Indians. |
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For all the rhetoric spewing from both sides of this clusterf$&k, what’s been lost is the positive impact the TJ PTA has had on the students. TJ will lose its charter and it’s very likely FCPS will step in and dictate how any parent run entity must operate, if at all. The admissions process will not change, nor will FCPS back off curriculum expectations. So great job screwing it up for the students. I’m happy to see the adults’ political agendas are having the desired outcomes.
As an aside, as the parent of a white male student hailing from the southeast corner of the county and graduated several years ago, it’s amazing how the racial equity debate is lost on our neighbors from the wealthier northwestern communities. The discussion always comes back to the same BS trope that it’s unfair to Asian students because they work harder and are, therefore more deserving of THEIR TS spot. Has anyone conducted an audit of how much personnel money is invested in prep tests or compared the PTA budget at Rachel Carson vs Carl Sandberg middle schools? Why are black and brown kids not getting into TJ? Maybe because they come from homes and base schools that don’t have unlimited financial resources to prepare them to take a test. Maybe they attend schools that worry about feeding their students and maintaining an acceptable attendance rate. Does it make kids from those schools less capable or is it simply they’re not on an equal footing because they can’t afford to live in the wealthy sections of the county and access to resources is limited. This argument isn’t about race; it’s about wealth distribution. Nobody wants to lose their spot to a poor kid from the wrong side of the county. |
As parent of a TJ graduate, and a Fairfax County taxpayer, it is totally acceptable ... indeed preferable ... to me that the opportunity to attend TJ be offered in equal shares to all middle schools. Some say the kids from the non traditional feeder schools won't make it. I am rooting for those kids and hope very much that they get a chance to shine at TJ. But if they can't keep up, then perhaps we learn something about the quality of education at the middle schools they came from (and perhaps also about the disparity in outside resources for the kids in those schools). |
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/eli-steele-de-blasios-shameful-racial-profiling-of-asian-students |
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/left-targets-testing-gifted-programs/619315/
Seems like a left leaning publication and a right leaning publication are agreeing on something. |
Can someone give a short summary of what is going on with the TJ PTSA?? So hard to follow. |
That's actually a very fair and simple solution. Have an admissions test and offer an equal share to all middle schools. Maybe even have some kind of low cutoff (or not). so if students are really weak, they won't have to endure TJ. middle school performance may actually improve. and the process is not now racially biased. I have no dog in the race here btw. |
OP back. Ugh.
The TJ Parent Class of 2021 (that is not a typo - my kid has graduated) has back and forth hostile posts/emails that directly name the opposing parents. It is so depressing - the exchanges on both sides have turned into personal, angry tirades all about the other adults - not one side has talked about the kids, other than in passing. In the beginning I thought the dispute was focused on whether or not the PTA would actively advocate for or against the new admissions system but now there are posts about the teaching of critical race theory. I am very sorry for the kids and parents coming in. |