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To all those complaining about the TJ lottery
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Anonymous
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You are either hypocrites, racists, or both. You wring your hands about diversity and eliminating privilege, but then screech about this decision. Meanwhile you would champion such a policy applied to any suburban or middle class area in the country and would dox those who dared oppose it. Yet the second this idea is applied to the school you personally like, you retreat into "conservative" and "reactionary" defenses like "kids who don't deserve those spots will go there" and "its not fair to those kids who put in the work" and "it will change the character of the school".
No one is surprised by your behavior. This happened in NYC a couple years back with some of their magnet schools, and it also happens every time zoning laws or school redistricting dares to affect suburbs where the 1 percent live (as opposed to those privileged racists in the middle class who hold all the real power, right?). Its just amazing how blatant your hypocrisy is. I hope TJ becomes a nightmare over the next 10 years. Their alumni were the ones who cultivated the appetite for these changes anyway because of the extreme liberalism encouraged by the school and parents. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Asians are white adjacent. Academic measures of success are categorically racist. Etc. These are the fruits of your beliefs and I for one am ecstatic the chickens are coming home to roost at least in this one small way. Now we just need affordable housing in your single family neighborhoods too. |
Anonymous
| Righteous indignation aside, what does this have to do with independent schools? |
Anonymous
Hilarious. Suddenly TJ admissions magically aren't related to the topic of this board. As if private schools in DC aren't structured around TJ admissions. Grow up. |
Anonymous
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I don't have any skin in the game, my kids have no desire to attend TJ.
I'm 100% for diversity in colleges, as this is a stepping stone for many under-privilege kids. But any high school can get you into college, leave TJ for the most academic-minded kids. Not to mention, FCPS already has AAP as another option. |
Anonymous
Huh? I live in Maryland, so maybe I'm clueless. I didn't think that that VA residents made up such a significant portion of DC privates -- enough that DC schools are structured around TJ admissions. Maybe I'm misinformed. But I'll take your advice and try to "grow up". Thanks for the helpful tip. |
Anonymous
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Yes, the wealthy hate blacks and try to pawn them off on the middle class through affordable housing zoning schemes and section 8 vouchers all while calling them racist if they dare say anything. Meanwhile the plan is to eliminate diversity in their own neighborhoods and schools... at least certain black kinds of diversity.
They resent suburban America for not having to "tolerate" AA families they way they do in the cities. Their entire politics rely on hiding this fact while moving ahead with punishing everyone else for it. So complaining about a more diverse TJ makes sense. |
Anonymous
Many DC private schools literally provide percentage of kids who attend TJ as part of their routine statistics |
Anonymous
"No." TJ will be 35 percent AA and there's nothing you can do about it. Is that a problem for you? Arent black children as capable as white and asians? Don't they deserve the benefits of the best possible school? Worried your blonde hair blue eyed daughter might date a black teen? What's wrong? |
Anonymous
Can you show proof of this? A list of the DC privates? I don’t know anyone that wants to send their kid to TJ. Most people don’t even live in Virginia. We are at a Big3 private. |
Anonymous
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If you truly cared about African American students you’d propose a program to go into these poor performing schools in kindergarten and give these kids the tools they need to succeed. Give them free test prep. Eliminating the testing and going to a lottery will do nothing but destroy the program in a year or two. TJ will become an ordinary high school.
I also read a great suggestion about building more schools with varying focuses- one on the fine arts, one on liberal arts. Give more talented kids more access to strong programs. I don’t know why this thread is in private schools. If a DC k-8 school mentions TJ acceptances it’s nothing more than anecdotal. VA privates are a bit different but even still, other than Nysmith and Basis, Potomac, Langley and Flint Hill aren’t sending bunches of kids to TJ each year. Maybe 1-2 if that. |
Anonymous
"If you truly cared about AA students you would... uhh... **quickly invents literally any proposal that ensures AA students will not go to school with her children**" BTW I never noticed your types saying the same crap when it comes to zoning and redistricting. I always here that the AA low income students will benefit from the better school. Its racist to talk about them lowering the quality by attending. Weird how that works. |
Anonymous
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Heads up to all those calling this off topic and low key asking for it to get deleted: I am not OP but I am fascinated by this thread. I also work for a moderate circulation DC paper. If this thread gets deleted I will write an article about white fragility using this thread getting deleted as an example
Just let it ride and deal with it, you fragile wasp creeps. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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My reply got lost in the nonsense posted above.
I don’t give two flying f**ks what color the kids are at TJ. I care that we are dumbing down a program instead of building up the community so that all kids can benefit from said program. You’re a bigot OP. If the thread gets moved it’s because it doesn’t belong here. It won’t get deleted. Love how an anonymous “reporter” can call us names and hide like this. Rich. |
Anonymous
| Why is this in the private school forum? |