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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To meet equity and diversity objectives. If AAP standard is high, especially math and English, then it favors only one or at most two races. [/quote]

And by equity and diversity objectives, PP means "to satisfy wealthy white parents who were upset that their children didn't get into the gifted and talented program".[/quote]

25-30 years ago, when it was just 5% or so in the "GT" program, most parents didn't obsess like they do today about it.  Some factors that might explain this:

1) Parents of non-GT kids didn't have to accept their kids being grouped with the "bottom 80%" as is perceived now. They were in the 95%, which seemed less negative.
2) Gen ed standards were much higher without so many resources spent on other programs.
3) The general SES of FCPS was higher, so there wasn't as much tension about the distribution of resources.
4) ESOL is a huge resource suck today, and average native English speakers lose out in that zero sum game.
5) FCPS' DEI push alienated many MC and UMC parents, and not all of them can afford private schools. AAP is a compromise until honors, AP are available. [/quote]

25-30 years ago, TJ didn’t exist or was brand new. That’s what changed it.[/quote]

TJ as a magnet science/technology school started in 1985, and the other students were soon merged into the student body at Annandale HS.  It was competitive from the beginning, though not to the degree it is now.

Another factor that "may" have contributed is the influx of Asian immigrants to the area, whose parents put a high value on education, especially math/science/technology.   [/quote]

I’m well aware but the first class through didn’t graduate until 1990 and it was still very much a school kids opted in to. A smart kid who felt unsupported in their base school could get in without much effort. I grew up here in those years and I’m very well acquainted with what it was like. There are plenty of current and former TJ teachers who would say the same.[/quote]

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