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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no doubt TJ Admissions need to be reset and diversity issues addressed ASAP.  But what was disappointing was the callous response from Dr Braband to the question of the lottery potentially excluding truly deserving students.  [b]His response was essentially that everyone thinks their own kid is truly gifted and deserving of admission.  And not getting into TJ is “not the end of the world”[/b].  Well if that is the case then what is the brouhaha all about?  And there are truly gifted kids (not necessarily mine) that will be left out.  It was sad to see an educator endorsing collateral damage.  The end should never justify the means especially when the platform is one of fairness and equity.  I was hoping they would consider some avenues for the truly gifted but the insouciance of the Superintendent on the issue was telling[/quote]
I don't see anything wrong with what he said.  Way too many think their kids are gifted... and there are gifted kids all over FCPS who made it without going to TJ
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AAP is different from TJ

AAP is oversaturated.  That needs to go back to the actual top 1-2% and then TJ pulls directly from that

Agree it's about being white.  Who benefits from lower AAP standards whites, top 20% vs top 1-2%

Who benefits from TJ lottery process whites.  Whites are making the cutoff but being outranked by asians.  There are very few black and hispanic folks making the testing cutoff and therefore there will still be very few making it into the lottery pool[/quote]

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