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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at what happened to CCNY (City College of NY) used to be called "poor man's Harvard". Like TJ had to take a test to get in. Free school. Everyone who scored high enough got in but the test was a bear! Then some said the test was unfair to some minorities. Now the school is CUNY and Hunter College is part of the system. I don't see how dumbing down the test is the answer. It will mean the end of TJ.[/quote]

I'm sorry but I'm from NYC and I have never heard of CCNY referred to poor man's Harvard.
I did attend Harvard and no one cares where you went to high school. Admissions tries to get a diverse student body. I had plenty of black and Hispanic classmates but many were international students or students who attending boarding school. [b]There are plenty of intelligent students of color in this world.[/b] [/quote]

a. Harvard "tries to get a diverse student body" but since it is private it can shape the class as it wishes.
b. public schools on the other hand don't have that same latitude.
c  MIT cares where you went to HS. They take more from TJ than any other high school.

As to that last sentence, it's true I'm sure, but isn't really here nor there with respect to this discussion. [/quote]

PP here. I'm too tired to defend with a lengthy response but I do think it is totally relevant to the discussion. My point was that there are intelligent students of color in this world. They just may not be concentrated in Fairfax County. Some of my strongest classmates were black. The president is black. Just because you are black you should not get preferential treatment in admissions into AAP/TJ because your race is underrepresented.

I once wrote a paper for my sociology class on the correlation between academic success of a child and the mother's academic achievement. Instead of dividing up the county by race, if there was a study done on AAP students and educational level of parents, I don't think the results would shocking. Learning starts from the home. We have plenty of black and Hispanic friends and colleagues who are lawyers and doctors. Their children are exceptionally bright. I don't think the complaint should be against Fairfax County.

I do buy a lot of books for my children. I don't necessarily think that I am prepping my children for a test but we have done preschool workbooks that teach my son tracing, counting, analogies, etc. I'm sure that these books would probably benefit him one day when he takes these standardized tests. Do we do workbooks for test prep? No. We do it as part of learning basic fundamentals of reading, writing, mathematics and logic. [/quote]

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