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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We appreciate that your thread is about nothing so much as rubbing it in the face of kids who likely would have been admitted to TJ in the past that they've been turned away.

At the end of the day, the Post is a bastion of elitism.  It's owned by a Princeton graduate, and the article was written by a Harvard graduate.  They want to make sure that elite institutions continue to remain the focus of everyone's attention by admitting more URMs, so they retain their cachet.

It would be interesting if the Post did a follow-up story interviewing four kids who had exceptional credentials, but were denied admission to TJ and ended up at their base schools.  Were they depressed and disappointed freshmen year?  Or did they end up having a great freshmen year and feeling like it all worked out for the best?  We'll never know because their stories won't be told by the Post.  Hannah Natanson already knew she'd write this story from the moment the School Board started discussing changes to the TJ admissions process in 2020.  If and when these four kids graduate from TJ in 2025, there will also be a sequel, but the experiences of the 96% of FCPS students who attend other high schools will continue to be ignored.  [/quote]

See, again, here's the thing.  MANY highly competent and capable kids were denied admissions by both systems.  Your assumption is that there is only one way -- the old way -- to decide who among those kids deserves admissions and who doesn't.

There have always been exceptional kids denied admission to TJ.  [/quote]

The "thing" is people like you jumping up and down about a few kids at TJ because they are URMs, and missing the bigger picture, [b]which is that TJ remains an exercise in elitism that excludes most kids [/b]- whose needs, challenges, and successes go ignored by the self-appointed arbiters of what is good and fair (like the FCPS School Board and Hannah Natanson).

Slow clap, if any.

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It's basically one example of how life works. There are lots of qualified people rejected from pretty much every top 30 universities, for instance.  I wouldn't go so far as to say that the needs, challenges and successes of those excluded are ignored. IME, kids who would otherwise be good fit for selective institutions go on to do well in life.

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