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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole revision was based on a goal of increasing the numbers of black and hispanic students.  Just because they added a sentence in the motion saying the new plan is race-neutra doesn’t make it so.[/quote]

[b]Though, actually, the group that will increase the most from the changes are White students. Making Asians the ones with the most to lose is a major win for White people[/b]. [/quote]

This.  All this blame aimed at black and Hispanic students, when it's WHITE students who will benefit the most. [/quote]

I mean, this would be true if white folks were actually interested in sending their kids to TJ. They're not, for the most part. White applications have dropped by more than 50% in the past 8 years.[/quote]

I know white parents whose older kids didn't apply in prior years whose younger kids are applying this year.  I also know an Asian family whose oldest went to TJ, middle one opted out despite being a stronger student than the first one and whose youngest is applying this year.  I think people are hoping their kids will be able to focus on STEM without being in what was perceived, rightly or wrongly, as a pressure cooker environment.  We'll see how the numbers turn out.  [/quote]

In other words:  Older white kids couldn't pass the test so didn't bother to apply, but now that the test is gone, the younger white kids are applying.  Middle Asian kid was probably popular and athletic and wanted to stay with his/her friends/teammates in his/her base school.  The youngest is a nerd like the eldest.[/quote]

Actually, the increasing number of people with attitudes like yours are the reason many whites have been avoiding TJ.[/quote]

BINGO![/quote]

There are other reasons why kids don't want to attend TJ, lack of sports, travel distance and teen social life to name a few.[/quote]

Ehh...... so there's a point to be made here, but there are also counterpoints.

Distance: Yep. That's a tough one.

Lack of sports: TJ has every sport that any other FCPS school has - with a couple of niche exceptions like rifle - but the common perception is that they suck at sports. True in a sense, as the sports that most people care about are not traditionally very successful, but TJ also wins tons of championships in sports like tennis and swim and golf. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, because the reality is that TJ would be better in football if more kids who played football would go to TJ, and more kids would go play football at TJ if they were better at it. They've had very good football teams at times in the relatively recent past, and they've also cratered when they get no players.

But conversely, because of this lack of success, there are a lot more opportunities for kids to play at the varsity level earlier than they would at their base school. There are kids every year who play varsity sports as freshmen at TJ, when at their base school they might have to wait until they're a junior. Or juniors at TJ who make the varsity who might have been cut from the JV at their base school. And this happens across all sports, giving these kids an opportunity to develop to a much higher level than they would otherwise.

Social life: It's really hard for kids to leave their friends to go to TJ. I know, because it's what I had to do when I was 14. No one from my middle school went to TJ other than me. But what I lost from my prior friends, I gained in getting a brand new group of kids in my IBET, and eventually through my activities, that were much more like-minded than what I would have found amongst the additional kids at my base school. It's inherently difficult with everyone living so far away from each other, but in the end the result is that the social life sort of revolves around TJ from a geographical perspective.[/quote]

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