student admissions and TJ lawsuit

[Anonymous]

Some of the students who filed the TJ admissions lawsuit against the new changes were actually admitted to the class of 2025. Not sure how that plays out.

[Anonymous]

I, for one, could not be more proud of them for holding themselves responsible for discriminating against themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the students who filed the TJ admissions lawsuit against the new changes were actually admitted to the class of 2025. Not sure how that plays out.

Once the class was seated, they were never going to have a stake in this issue anyway. There was no universe where the lawsuit resulted in a redo of the admissions process.

Status quo advocates are acting relentlessly out of their own self-interest in all cases - it’s the literal definition of modern conservatism. Once admitted, the only real interest that remains is in the preservation of the institution - although I’ll bet some of them have younger students whose privilege they will seek to protect as well.

[Anonymous]

I am so glad that it is only conservatives that act in their own self interests.
Progressives alone act in the interests of all people. We should grant them absolute power.

To paraphrase Mencken, democracy means the people get the government they deserve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so glad that it is only conservatives that act in their own self interests.
Progressives alone act in the interests of all people. We should grant them absolute power.

To paraphrase Mencken, democracy means the people get the government they deserve.

+1 reductio ad absurdum

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure I understand the point of the original post. If a thief robs several houses in your neighborhood but doesn't get yours, you would no longer be interested in holding them responsible for their actions?

[Anonymous]

No one has been "robbed." It is a taxpayer-funded public school. Admission policies can change. As a Fairfax taxpayer, I'm glad to see admissions will be more evenly spread across the county. I'd rather it become an academy where more kids could take lab-oriented classes.

[Anonymous]

As a taxpayer, I'm being robbed. Not just by this TJ circle fest, but by all of FCPS. Why can't teachers teach rather than extort? Why can't material be taught in a balanced fashion rather than the indoctrination? The public school system will die, killed by the idiocy of it's strongest "advocates."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the students who filed the TJ admissions lawsuit against the new changes were actually admitted to the class of 2025. Not sure how that plays out.

The case goes forward. They will be out, but the case goes on. Now rising 8th graders have standing as well.

[Anonymous]

I have 2 kids in Fairfax County. No one is being indoctrinated. Teachers are professionals teaching their subjects and teaching kids to be critical thinkers. Why are people so afraid of hearing multiple points of view and perspectives? The human experience is wide and varied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have 2 kids in Fairfax County. No one is being indoctrinated. Teachers are professionals teaching their subjects and teaching kids to be critical thinkers. Why are people so afraid of hearing multiple points of view and perspectives? The human experience is wide and varied.

Critical thinking and conservatism do not mix

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has been "robbed." It is a taxpayer-funded public school. Admission policies can change. As a Fairfax taxpayer, I'm glad to see admissions will be more evenly spread across the county. I'd rather it become an academy where more kids could take lab-oriented classes.

Admissions can’t be changed in a discriminatory manner - which the Supreme Court has already ruled when it comes to quotas. I am in favor of letting the case play out and living with the outcome. I don’t care how it plays out, I just want it resolved once and for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has been "robbed." It is a taxpayer-funded public school. Admission policies can change. As a Fairfax taxpayer, I'm glad to see admissions will be more evenly spread across the county. I'd rather it become an academy where more kids could take lab-oriented classes.

Admissions can’t be changed in a discriminatory manner - which the Supreme Court has already ruled when it comes to quotas. I am in favor of letting the case play out and living with the outcome. I don’t care how it plays out, I just want it resolved once and for all.

There are no racial quota. Our entire Congess is based on geographic quotas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has been "robbed." It is a taxpayer-funded public school. Admission policies can change. As a Fairfax taxpayer, I'm glad to see admissions will be more evenly spread across the county. I'd rather it become an academy where more kids could take lab-oriented classes.

Admissions can’t be changed in a discriminatory manner - which the Supreme Court has already ruled when it comes to quotas. I am in favor of letting the case play out and living with the outcome. I don’t care how it plays out, I just want it resolved once and for all.

There are no racial quota. Our entire Congess is based on geographic quotas.

Look, even if the case is ruled against FCPS, all they are going to do is go back to the drawing board and find a different way to achieve the same or similar outcome. They have a compelling interest in making the school accessible to all of the middle schools that it serves.

As for the geographic quotas, it’s no fault of FCPS that families have self-segregated to the extent that they have. It’s not FCPS’ fault that while East and Southeast Asians are spread roughly evenly through the area, there is an extreme concentration of South Asians in Herndon and Chantilly.

What’s not going to happen is you’re not going to get an exam back. Exams cost money and the application fee is gone for good - and there is far too much evidence that confirms that having an exam confers a huge advantage in families who are willing to invest the time and resources on expensive and grueling prep, and that’s bad for the TJ environment and Northern Virginia at large no matter how you slice it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have 2 kids in Fairfax County. No one is being indoctrinated. Teachers are professionals teaching their subjects and teaching kids to be critical thinkers. Why are people so afraid of hearing multiple points of view and perspectives? The human experience is wide and varied.

Well, OK then. The biggest mistake the teachers made was insisting on going virtual. It was quite interesting listening in my kid's APUSH class. It's certainly wasn't the version of US history I learned and I grew up in a town generally viewed as more leftist than NoVa.
The basic problem is that both sides are not being presented.