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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's fine to scare future parents/students ... TJ may not let you participate in graduation if you don't fulfill TJ graduation requirements.

I would hope next year and going forward, TJ would actually not allow the student to participate in graduation.[/quote]

Why? This is not a private school, but a public one. These people are graduating from a public school with a state-issued diploma. Why are you so determined to be vengeful on teenagers? Are you worried that someone might think your precious has the stink on them if you don’t obviously humiliate other kids who are still high school graduates?

Especially for the TJ kids, high school graduation is just a stepping stone to other things. I get when I read posts on national Facebook groups of the people going absolutely nuts over high school graduation and realize for some of these kids this may be the pinnacle of their academic achievement and this might be the best they will ever do, and may be the only time other than when they get married that they will have some kind of public event in their honor.

The real world doesn’t care that your kid went to TJ.[/quote]

These kids will be graduating at the bottom of the class. They were small fish in a big pond. They would have been better served elsewhere, so why did they want to go there?[/quote]

They went. Maybe it was the hard grading teacher, maybe they hit a wall with calculus. Maybe they got much further than they would have in their home school because more was asked of them. I still don’t get the nastiness towards these kids. [/quote]

Nobody hates these kids, we pity them.  We are angry with FCPS board for using these kids as props in their diversity virtue signalling and we should do our best to prevent kids finding themselves in this situation going forward.[/quote]

How is it any of your concern if it’s not your child? Why are you pitying anyone? And are you SURE they’re all the poor/non-Asian ones? You certainly seem to be doing the opposite of virtue signaling. [/quote]

Your side trots out tax dollars as the reason we should include people from every middle school.  Can I trot out the waste of tax dollars as a reason to create a minimum level of objectively demonstrated proficiency for admission?

They may not be my kids but they are somebody's kids and those parents were deceived.  They were encouraged to send their unprepared kids to TJ because FCPS wanted their skin.  They were encouraged to believe their kids could handle it, when in fact nobody had any idea whether or not they could.  Then when their kids floundered, Bonitatibus reassured these families that remedial courses and extra support would get them through because she didn't want to admit that the scheme didn't work.  And here we are with these kids failing math in their senior year. at a stem school.

And yes, for the most part the failing kids are who you would expect them to be.  Kids that never took the Iowa test and took geometry as freshmen.  The last test of cognitive ability they took before admission to TJ was was the COGAT in elementary.  But that's not the point.  The point is that they were admitted in pursuit of skin color diversity.  White admits increased too and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of unqualified white and asian kids got in as well.  But ALL of the unqualified kids got in as a result of the pursuit of skin color.[/quote]

How do you know who these particular kids are? Is there a list of names and bios of the kids somewhere?[/quote]

Yes, is mostly the kids taking geometry as freshmen.  And we know that some of them are struggling.  [/quote]

How do you know the names of these kids? Is there a list somewhere?

Or are you just going by gossip from kids or parents and assuming you know?
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WTF are you talking about?

The kids taking calculus as seniors are mostly the ones that took geometry as freshmen.

We know which schools they come from.

We know how many return.  Kids return to almost all schools but especially to those schools.[/quote]

So you are making assumptions. Got it. 
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