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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Abraham Lerner a student or an adult?

No diversity committee will fix the problem of attracting more qualified black and hispanic American citizen applicants to TJ.   The disparity in achievement is largely due to family/home environment factors and it usually starts in the early childhood years.  [/quote]

I believe Lerner lives in Herndon and is in his early 50s.

He didn't say he was in favor of enrolling random Black and Hispanic students in TJ.  He apparently thinks TJ should do more to enroll qualified minorities other than Asians, and found Epstein strenuously opposed to any such initiatives.

The Ivies and other top universities don't simply accept the students with the top GPAs and SATs, but perhaps they aren't in the same league as TJ.

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18:55 again.   There have always been differences in academics between FCPS elementary and middle schools.  One middle school didn't even offer algebra 1 until recently.  All elementary schools didn't have compacted math and it was only this academic year that FCPS tried to get it everywhere.  These disparities are really amazing.  Strauss has been on the board for 18 years.    Focus on academics???   TJ is a math-science magnet.   The sort of students who in college major in engineering ,  comp sci, and actually enjoy organic chemistry.   Many public school students  take algebra 1 and geometry in middle school.   Standard sequence completed by end of grade 8.

http://www.fcag.org/tjinfo.html#minorities[/quote]

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