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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have at it...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thomas-jefferson-high-school-admissions-debate/2021/03/26/e730baf6-8c30-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html[/quote]

Jackson said I am overlooking the fact that the portion of admitted students who are designated gifted will be less. That percentage “will decrease from the 90 percent who are in current classes under the merit-test admissions process to an estimated 60 percent under the new ‘holistic’ plan,” he said, “[b]and it will racially discriminate against Asian Americans [/b]because school officials feel that they are overrepresented.”

He (similar to many others) doesn't even address this issue. It's like, oh [b]they will be fine in other programs[/b].... [/quote]

Re: "they will be fine in other programs", they will not. Other FCPS schools than TJ do not offer the suite of advanced math courses. So, if a child comes in having completed Alg2 or Precalc in Middle School, the child is basically out of choices in a regular HS, unless the parents are willing to pay college tuition to take courses at GMU or the like. How's this fair?

One solution is to make sure that all HS in the county offer the same courses as TJ does in STEM. Then the playing field is leveled, for those advanced kids who may not have the luck to get into TJ.[/quote]

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