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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] For most of its history, Fairfax County had no special magnet school and the schools were just fine. TJ needs to return to its original purpose as a neighborhood school for students living in Alexandria, Annandale and North Springfield. This would relieve overcrowding at other schools and help pyramids like Annandale that have seen their boundaries redrawn over the years to include all the multi-family housing that used to be zoned to both Jefferson and Annandale. There are too many obnoxious Asian supremacists at TJ who look down at everyone else, many of the students are egregious cheaters, and the school system as a whole would be better off without the test prep/AAP mania that TJ promotes.[/quote]

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-  "Asian supremacists look down on everyone else"?  Wearing Nazi paraphernalia, perhaps?  Get a life, dude.

- "many of the students are egregious cheaters" - Many implies greater than 50%.  If TJ is 60% Asian, at least 600 students are cheaters.  And you have records to prove this?  You must be the Pink Panther!

- "the school system as a whole would be better off without the test prep/AAP mania that TJ promotes" - You are dreamer too!  Ain't gonna happen.  Keep posting this every day, if it makes you feel better :-)[/quote]

DP. Many implies a lot. Many TJ parent feel that 9p confirmed violations (which implies many more kids cheating who were not caught) is 90 too many.   Are you seriously saying 90 honor code violations in less than a year is not a lot of cheating?[/quote]

My post was not an opinion on whether 90 was too high or not.  It was directed at the blatant racism of the previous poster who seems to imply that many of the asian students are egregious cheaters.

As to your question, I think even 1 is one too many.  However (we are beating a horse that died several months ago here),  if nothing is done about it, it will not stop.  Some people seem to think the kids and their parents should stop this but not sure which world they live in.. [/quote]

The one where kids can choose not to cheat.  And parents can, you know, parent. Make it clear that having integrity is more important than getting an A. That they are not raising a kid who cheats. That if TJ turns their kid into a cheater, that is unacceptable, and they will return their kid to their base school. That sort of thing.  The school plays a role in stopping cheating.  But the ultimate responsibly to teach morals and ethical behavior, and enforce consequences lies with the parents. You clearly taught your kid that academics are important, or they would be at TJ. So teach them that honesty or integrity are important too.  And that behaving with integrity is more important than grades.  This is not hard. Although it might require you to do unpleasant things. Like accept a B from your kid, or enforce consequences for cheating.

But, many Asian parents believe that academic achievement is more important than behaving ethically.  So, they don't want to enforce no cheating. In fact, they don't want the school to enforce it either. [/quote]

(1)  You lack comprehension skill - Read my response.. especially the part that says "I think even 1 is one too many".  because if you did, you would not be dishing out free parenting advice that I wasn't really asking for.
(2)  We will have to disagree on enforcement.  It's the school.  What you are saying is akin to "Crime will only stop if parents teach their children not to deal drugs, rape, shoot others, etc.  NO.  Crime will stop only if the cops do their job, IN ADDITION TO THE COMMUNITY DOING ITS JOB (i.e. PARENTING).

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