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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not in Fairfax county but that seems to defeat the purpose of PUBLIC education.[/quote]

So does the after school club and activity fee; curricular band, orchestra and art fees; the fee to take the PSAT as a junior; the new fees for APs over a certain number; the fee for PE uniforms, and the whole host of other mandatory fees I write checks for each year. [/quote]

I think these are a little different than asking for a consideration to attend a public school which is what application is. [/quote]

Well, it’s the same across FCPS.  As of 2017, you have to pay a $100 “processing” fee to apply for AP/IB transfer, language transfer, senior status transfer, to go to the ES magnet schools or immersion, etc.

https://www.fcps.edu/index.php/registration/student-transfers

Why is this okay, but asking TJ applicants to help defray the cost of taking the test and applying not?

I would think people would be pissed if language immersion and AP/IB had to pay the fee, and a TJ applicants did not. Especially since the fee is waived for FARMs in both cases. 
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Agree with this. If you have to pay for a routine pupil placement, you certainly should have to pay when applying to TJ, when the TJ admissions process is more labor-intensive.

There is also a big double standard at work, when it comes to the School Board going along with the expenditure of monies raised by the TJ Partnership Fund, compared with the excruciating scrutiny that other schools have experienced when they lined up sponsors.[/quote]

Got it.  So TJ using public money is not okay. And when you find out they aren’t, you decide using private money is also not okay.  Talk about a double standard.

Plus, somehow, places like the Academy at Chantilly are getting some very nice equipment through public-private partnerships.  And Booster clubs of all sorts shake down parents of current students and alums for  sports, band, crew, music, academic teams, etc.  [/quote]

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