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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On balance, TJ has been horrible for FCPS.  As long as they can point to something "world class" (gag), it's easy to ignore what's become essentially third-world.

And closing a neighborhood high school in eastern Fairfax has over time screwed up the boundaries, concentrated poverty at Annandale, and forced some unlucky kids to cross both 495 and 395 to get to Edison.  All so some tiger moms in McLean and Chantilly can boast about their TJ kids.  It's the epitome of "Two Fairfaxes."[/quote]

Well without TJ, I'm not sure Fairfax would be doing as well as it is. People want good schools and move here because of it. There's no reason to think that trend would continue if TJ went away. So probably TJ actually influences the other high schools for the better due to its popularity.[/quote]

+1. TJ helps draw affluent and educated families to Fairfax County and FCPS.  And affluent and educated workforce, especially in STEM, convinces companies to invest here.  Fairfax County and FCPS does not support TJ out of the goodness of their hearts.  TJ plays an important role in Fairfax County’s economic development.

TJ and the AAP feeders are part of the reason there are so few good private schools serving Fairfax County. [/quote]

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+100 For instance, the Amazon site selection team actually met with the TJ student government reps and 2 TJ students along with the principal before deciding to locate here.  In 10 years the cumulative multiplier effect of Amazon and follow-on companies will be a huge anti-poverty boon to the Alexandria area where (it was about a 5x jobs multiplier in seatlle within 1 mile of Amazon's workforce in the seattle HQ over 10 years).

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