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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would people from overseas be planning to go to TJ?
Unacceptable.[/quote]

This has been happening for decades and became extremely popular when US News and World Report started putting out rankings of the best high schools in America. The massive South Asian immigration to Northern Virginia (not just from India, but also from other parts of the US) happened in part because of these rankings and a false belief that a degree from TJ is a ticket to an Ivy League school (fewer than 10% of TJ graduates attend Ivies).[/quote]

This is why I think kids who aren't a part of FCPS from at least 5th grade onward should be heavily scrutinized and should have to clear a higher bar to be admitted to TJ.  TJ should serve real FCPS students.  It shouldn't serve FCPS tourists or private school kids (who are clearly more advantaged than their public school counterparts).  [b]TJ shouldn't even be accepting kids who are foreign citizens who move to FCPS in 7th or 8th[/b] solely to apply to TJ.

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That's not legal, it's a public school.  [/quote]

they would still have a high school to attend - whatever their base school is[/quote]

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