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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indian dad here. I was born in India but raised in Northern Virginia and grew up in the American school system (I did not go to TJ, a matter which I still hear about from my parents). While my family is relatively liberal, we do still belong to Indian social circles here and many parents are very upset that the Curie "secret" has been exposed to the greater community through that idiotic Facebook post.

Word is that their revenues were significantly down because of COVID - all of their promotional stuff shows kids crammed into tiny classrooms - and so they decided to push out this Facebook post to try to get people to commit to the TJ 7th grade program.[b] They're working on an online program as well that can be accessed by students overseas whose families have not moved to America for TJ yet - there are a good number of these families who had plans to come here but have halted temporarily due to COVID[/b].

There are also families who believe that Dr. Rao provides this service for free to family friends, which is a subject of some consternation as it's well understood to confer a huge advantage in the TJ process.[/quote]

The bolded part is the biggest thing that bothers me.  TJ should serve people who are real Fairfax residents and not those who move here in middle school solely for TJ.  They should heavily scrutinize the applications of those who moved into the district in 7th or 8th and then applied to TJ.  Or, they should give some sort of boost to kids who have been in FCPS from at least mid-elementary through 8th.  [/quote]

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