TJ Admissions - Speak to Senator Warner

[Anonymous]

Senator Warner has requested a Zoom Meeting with Asian Community to discuss TJHSST admission policy changes. Join the meeting and express your views - OCT 22, 4 PM

Please register via this ZOOM LINK https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcOCtrjMjHdHJDGdAy6La4BF3-dSOnpW4.

https://coalitionfortj.net/

[Anonymous]

It's about time Asians start getting more politically active and represented.

[Anonymous]

Just registered.

[Anonymous]

Just registered.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone give us an update? I saw this too late

[Anonymous]

missed this information, would be very interested in an update

[Anonymous]

Update please?

[Anonymous]

Who cares? It's a local matter and not within his jurisdiction as a U.S. Senator.

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1319409320719716355

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? It's a local matter and not within his jurisdiction as a U.S. Senator.

True, but he does have a leadership role in the Democratic Party in this state. The optics of the changes are bad.

The lowering of the standards will hurt all students alike, regardless of race. NAACP missed their chance to use the low URM enrollment at TJ as evidence that they need better programs at the schools serving URMs. That would have actually addressed the issue at its roots, and would have benefited att the URMs at those schools. Instead, our local NAACP person pushed for equality in admittance to a merit school. She is either thinking backwards or really does not care about the URM population at large

[Anonymous]

It seems the following conclusions can be drawn from the action of canceling the admissions test.

1. Parents who care = bad. If parents didn't care, they won't encourage their kids to work hard and without working hard, you won't get into TJ or do well there. If there are lotteries, parents just have to enroll. That's easy.
2. Brown people (possibly the dominant color in TJ) are being racially victimized by the action of removing a race-blind test to enforce geographic/demographic quotas.
3. A top-notch school is being taken down because it has the wrong minority. The big loser is going to be Fairfax county.

I am a hugely involved democrat who has been working hard over the last few months for a Democrat victory. I am definitely questioning my own actions, and beliefs of the supposedly anti-racist party that I have been supporting.

Sigh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems the following conclusions can be drawn from the action of canceling the admissions test.

1. Parents who care = bad. If parents didn't care, they won't encourage their kids to work hard and without working hard, you won't get into TJ or do well there. If there are lotteries, parents just have to enroll. That's easy.
2. Brown people (possibly the dominant color in TJ) are being racially victimized by the action of removing a race-blind test to enforce geographic/demographic quotas.
3. A top-notch school is being taken down because it has the wrong minority. The big loser is going to be Fairfax county.

I am a hugely involved democrat who has been working hard over the last few months for a Democrat victory. I am definitely questioning my own actions, and beliefs of the supposedly anti-racist party that I have been supporting.

Sigh!

Vote democratic at the Federal level, republican at the local level. That's how you get a government aligned with your values with checks and balances at the local level.

[Anonymous]

Or maybe the school board should have representation proportionate to the student population?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the following conclusions can be drawn from the action of canceling the admissions test.

1. Parents who care = bad. If parents didn't care, they won't encourage their kids to work hard and without working hard, you won't get into TJ or do well there. If there are lotteries, parents just have to enroll. That's easy.
2. Brown people (possibly the dominant color in TJ) are being racially victimized by the action of removing a race-blind test to enforce geographic/demographic quotas.
3. A top-notch school is being taken down because it has the wrong minority. The big loser is going to be Fairfax county.

I am a hugely involved democrat who has been working hard over the last few months for a Democrat victory. I am definitely questioning my own actions, and beliefs of the supposedly anti-racist party that I have been supporting.

Sigh!

Vote democratic at the Federal level, republican at the local level. That's how you get a government aligned with your values with checks and balances at the local level.

[Anonymous]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanwai/2020/10/21/what-the-research-says-on-tests-and-test-optional-policies-in-college-admissions/#5b09639033db

I know TJ is not university, but mismatch theory might be applied here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-needlessly-polarized-mismatch-theory-debate/420321/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? It's a local matter and not within his jurisdiction as a U.S. Senator.

True, but he does have a leadership role in the Democratic Party in this state. The optics of the changes are bad.

The lowering of the standards will hurt all students alike, regardless of race. NAACP missed their chance to use the low URM enrollment at TJ as evidence that they need better programs at the schools serving URMs. That would have actually addressed the issue at its roots, and would have benefited att the URMs at those schools. Instead, our local NAACP person pushed for equality in admittance to a merit school. She is either thinking backwards or really does not care about the URM population at large

the optics are not bad.

The best case is that TJ matches the diversity of the county. When it doesn, when no African Americans and no Hispanics, that is bad optics.