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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please help me to understand how having a different skin color has anything to do with the type of education a student is receiving in FCPS?   If no students at all were getting TJ from a certain middle school than you could look at that school for instructional issues.  [/quote]

TJ parent, and this is a huge oversimplification.  Fact is almost every kid who attends TJ comes from years of parents pouring time and energy and money into their kid’s education.  It may (or may not) be that the Asian parents tend more towards structured prep, while the white parents focus more on a more intangible creating a good environment idea— summer camp and concerts and Museum visits and NPR on in the car.  But this years TJ kids were 3rd graders who did Science Olympiad and Odyssey of the Mind, and supplemental math or science enrichment, play or played an insrumemt (need to rent or buy, likely supplemental lessons), visited hands on kids museums, went to Science summer camp and has weekly outings to the library.  In MS, having a resume of STEM focused activities is an admissions requirement.  And once a kid is there, parents are running extra carpools from an hour away and providing the extra supports to make it work.   I don’t know any kids who are accepted to TJ without having parents significantly involved in their education.  Practically speaking, TJ is only possible for kids whose parents have education, money and free time.  And you can’t really take a kid with a weak math and reading foundation, and a not so great handle on study skills, and without a lot of parental involvement, and expect them to swim instead of sink. Which is why TJ’s FARMs and URM numbers are so bad.

TJ has been actively trying to change this, and has a couple of programs for current students to teach test prep and mentor FARMs/URM students in MS through the admissions process. Thus far, it does not seem to have moved the needle. [/quote]

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