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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Realistically, what can he to actually improve TJ that is 100% within his control?[/quote]
He can shift the focus back to STEM academics and recognizing students' merit-based efforts, rather than DEI and woke stuff.[/quote]

Be really specific in describing exactly how Bonitatibus focused on “DEI and woke stuff” in matters of educational policy.[/quote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wJYHnOyJM&t=3s

At about 13:30 Bonitatibus speaks on this subject during the debate about the admissions change.
She cosigns the whole diversity and representation rationale the board presents for its racial discrimination.[/quote]

Oh, Asra. I can’t be the only one who is surprised that you have nothing better to do with your time. You were a person of such significance, and now… still tilting at this situation with absolutely no results after four years. Except maybe, just maybe, you got your nemesis a big raise.

The school is entirely populated with students chosen by the new admissions process, and eight of them - the first class of the new process - just made the top 300 in the Regeneron competition. Compared with seven in the class of 2024, and five in the class of 2023.

A staggering objective measure of the top researchers in America’s high schools and the new process has the arrow trending upward.

Go back to picking on the black kids at Hayfield. More people like you when you do that.[/quote]

The Regeneron finalists chosen by the new admissions policy consist of….7 students that went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”. 1 from McLean (I’m not sure if the student went to Cooper or Longfellow), 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and 1 student from Longfellow. 1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population and a fairly wealthy area of Ashburn).

0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools.  0 non-Asian students.[/quote]

So the argument is they are still identifying the truly top students; if fewer well above-average students come from Carson, Cooper, and Longfellow, that’s fine  because those kids will be appropriately challenged at Oakton, Langley, and McLean; and it’s in the greater interest of society if some above-average students from poor pyramids are exposed to the brilliant kids and get opportunities they wouldn’t have had at schools like Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, Lewis, and Mount Vernon.

What’s your response?  [/quote]

Mine is that if none of these 8 kids attended TJ, then FCPS may have had 0 Regeneron semifinalists rather than 8.  The process already appears to have missed the one who needed to enter as a froshmore.  It could easily miss others.  One of the arguments I've heard is that TJ is "life changing" for the poor kids, but wouldn't be for the kids attending wealthy schools.  My view is that making Regeneron semifinalist, USA(J)MO, MOP, high levels/training camps for any of the USAPhO, USACO, etc are also life changing, even for the wealthy kids.  In FCPS, most of the kids in the mix for any of those honors would need a school like TJ to help nurture their talents.  [/quote]

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