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OMG, this nonsense again. The point of TJ is not to win anything, it's to serve Northern Virginia and the STEM community by delivering a quality STEM-focused education to students interested in possibly pursuing those fields.

Someone is REALLY butthurt that no one cares about what their kid does.[/quote]

But what is the point of TJ, really?  The VDOE governor's schools say that the point is to provide a rigorous education to gifted children whose needs can't be met in their regular schools.  If so, then they need to ensure that they're finding and admitting those gifted children, no matter what race they might be.  TJ already admits many kids who are not gifted and don't "need" TJ, so they would still have plenty of slots to use to capture a population more representative of Fairfax.

If the point of TJ is to provide STEM opportunities to kids interested in STEM, as you say, then they should turn it into an academy program with classes open to any kid who meets the pre-requisites.

If part of the point of TJ is to be ranked as one of the top high schools in the country and have teams or students who win prestigious contests, then they should stick with standardized tests and admitting the top scorers.

FCPS needs a clear mission statement on what they're trying to do with TJ.  I'm very critical of the changes, mostly because I think FCPS deep down views the third choice as the point of TJ, but they're using a lot of magical thinking on how they can achieve that.  They seem to be changing the admissions in a way that will most likely just lead to more above average but not particularly gifted white kids getting in and fewer highly gifted kids being identified by the process.  [/quote]

Yes but when 70% just buy the test answers it's time to rethink admissions because those high scores carry no weight.[/quote]

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