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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, this is not a rumor. My son has a classmate at TJ who's family (mon and sons) from a foreign country (I shall not name names) rents a house in our neighborhood. I have nothing against foreigners, or Asians (which I am). But I do want everyone to understand the following issues:

(1) TJ is a tax payer funded school. The student should be county residents with citizenship or permanent resident (i.e, green card) status. This means that their families actually pay taxes or within the documented tax base that funds the school.  In the current situation, not only these foreign/migrant students do not pay out-of-state tuition, they do not pay in-state tuition, period. I can only blame the school system for creating such a situation that tax payers are taken advantage of.  Can anyone from Virginia if they can go to, say Penn State or Georgia Tech, and not pay a dime to attend the school? A scholarship maybe - But our "TJ scholarship" paid for by county tax payers is automatic for anyone. This is absurd!

(2) Because of limited number of seats available each year at TJ, other well qualified students (black, white, hispanic, and asian born in this country) inevitably will be adversely impacted in the admission. At current time, the most displaced students are white and (American asian) students who were born in the U.S. and who's parents have dutifully paid the taxes to support the school.

(3) Concentration of a group of students with similar ethnic background (I know, I know, not all Asians are the same, my personal asian background is very different from others, but) does not foster a diverse learning environment for the students themselves.

(4) Students from foreign countries distort the statistics of (in particular) Asian representation at TJ.  About 2/3 of incoming students (class 2016) are Asain! This is not appealing even for an Asian like myself. Do I really want to send my other child to TJ in a few year when TJ is 70%, or 80% Asian? I really want all my children to have a rich experience that includes all races and ethinic backgorunds. But this is harder and harder to do.  Can I ask for at least 5% black students? at least 5% hispanic students? as many as Native Americans that are eligible, at least 35% white students? I am saying this with a heavy heart, not trying to offend anyone, and I am usually against quota as a matter of principle.

(5) Since last year, TJ has hired ESL teacher in an environment of limited school budgets to help students in TJ but have difficulty in English. If I remember, at least half of the problems in the TJ admission test have to do with English Langueage. So the question is why there are so many students admited to TJ without meeting the lanuage requirements? Why do you and I have to pay for someone not from this country for English remedial courses?

(6) Last but not the leaset, this situation will continue if the citizens and residents of the county do not hold the school system (school board in particular) accountable.

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[b]This could all be rumor[/b] but I've heard that there are plenty of Asian - actually specifically Koreans - who move with mom to No Va in late elementary, rent a room, prep for test and enter into the FCPS system all in an effort to get into TJ. I've also heard that they've had to add an ESL/basic writing classes in the past few years to help out these kids who manage to get in but don't have the necessary English skills. [/quote]

Again before any of this, provide some numbers.  What % of US citizens, % of permanent regidends, % of foreign students, % of illegals, etc ini TJ.

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