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[quote=Anonymous]I moved to Alexandria years ago before I had a child and remember the old superintendant being very against allowing City of Alexandria residents of being allow to have their children apply for admission to Thomas Jefferson, the prestigious public magnet school in Fairfax County.

Her public stance was it would drain too many of the best students from TC Williams, to the detriment of the student body at large.  I remember a teacher telling me that was all B.S., it was more like she was afraid all of Alexandria's slots would go to private school middle students on the City's dime.   I think the City had to pay, back then, about $12K per TJ student.  That superindent later was forced out because of a DUI or something like that.

Has anyone rethought this policy since it was implement a long time ago and whether it is still relevent?  The City is much different from when I first moved here, so I wonder if there would be political support to allow a moderate number of City residents a chance at TJ.  I know some far flung counties grant a handful of spots and TJ seems more than willing to allow City residents go to TJ if the City was willing.  Every new resident I talk to about it is always very surprised of the TJ ban.

I was going to bring this up to my neighborhood association, but before I did, I wanted to know what others thought about it.  Or if anyone had any ideas to make it more palatable to the powers that be.

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