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[quote=Anonymous]My family is chinese and I  have a kid currently in TJ and another 6 grade. I really don't like the test prep involved in TJ admission here in FCPS or test prep for NNAT or CogAT.  I welcome changes in the TJ admission process to remove such "targeted" test prep out. A pure lottery system may be over simplify things so I like what FCAG proposed that lottery path can be combined with other admission path for the "truely" gifts .  If a sort of test is needed just to establish a baseline for the other selection path , just do the standard test, e.g. SOL.

However I don't understand why some people would blame Asian families for registering/enrolling kids in academic related course offerings and consider it unfair since not all people can afford it. As the first generation immigrant, our kids do actually need additional help to overcome certain challenges as compared with the natives. For example, my older one cannot handle English writing and reading well,  I was worried as I myself is not good at it too so I sent them to classed to improve English writing.   II do know poor Asian families with single income living in condo and buying cheap cars without any luxury spending, however they still choose to invest  money to provide additional help for Kids's academic. I don't see such efforts "unfair" to other families.

The test scandal is horrible however it does not represent Asian. Some of the posts in this forum is really hurting the feeling of Asian family. Most of us are just ordinary working class and we made livings without much help from the family.

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