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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"'failure to grant this would cause significant operational disruptions for TJ ahead of the next school year, including hiring decisions, course selections, teaching assignments and the development of curriculum'”

This doesn’t make sense to me.  Is FCPS thinking about shutting down TJ?  The students are academically of the same caliber under the new system. Why would there be much difference to hiring decisions, course selections, teaching assignments, and curriculum, esp for 9th grade classes?[/quote]

Legal tactic.  But they didn't care about the disruptions to the class of 2025.  So why now?[/quote]

The new system seemed to be fairer to all areas not just hose wealthy parts of the county that can afford to spend $10k on prep and the kids selected may be less prepped but seemed to struggle less once they were at TJ. [/quote]

You can stop with that talking points. Seen it plastered dozens of times. Spout some original thought if you have any. [/quote]

I wonder what would have happened with the admissions reform if FCPS had approached it from a “prep” standpoint vs racial justice?

Curie Learning Center publicly stating on their FB page that 133 of their students were admitted to the class of 2024 and listed our first and last names.  There was some rumblings apparently that some kids had seen the test ahead of time, but I don’t think that was ever clear if it was accurate.  I personally don’t have an issue with prep, but curious as to why the FCPS school board didn’t say that they wanted to level the playing field by addressing the issue that prepping seemed to be trending as a defacto requirement for admission? Race is clearly extremely problematic from a legal standpoint, but prep isn’t.  (Unless it’s being used as a proxy for race of course.)

Overall, it’s just embarrassing how incompetent the school board is. They managed to make both sides furious. [/quote]

They rushed something that is complicated to figure out.  The quick and dirty method, which antagonized large swaths of people interested in the school, was never going to work out.  They spent huge amounts of taxpayers money (PR firm, etc.), tons of hours and resources, and are now managing to piss off all sides.  One could have done something a lot more gradual (just eliminating test and fees, for example, while keeping recommendation letters, etc.) or even on a limited basis (experimenting with new method for letting in half of the student body).  But now we are in a s*tstorm and families are in limbo.  The fact that the 9th graders are not doing that well in AMC tests, dropping out in far greater numbers than in previous years, and many forced to take remedial classes in Algebra--all of this is not helping.  The gradual approach would have helped with this too and they could correct things as they progressed.[/quote]

AND they did all this during a pandemic. Instead of using the time to figure out how to get kids back in school.[/quote]

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