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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] No process will be universally popular but this one has absolutely divided the community. But that is the nature of the current political game. [/quote]

I agree that we should push for a better admissions process, but this process is at least a step in the right direction.

And the admissions change was *not* politically driven. The Rs have politicized it. 
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Of course it was politically driven. Its main proponent was Scott Brabrand, who specifically said he was moved to act by George Floyd’s murder. It wasn’t

You either have a selective or a narrow view of what is political, or you lie on purpose. [/quote]

That’s not a “political” motivation - it wasn’t to garner votes. 
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It was to try and improve Brabrand’s standing with the far-left School Board, which is the most transparently political (and unconcerned with actual education) of any School Board in recent memory.

That was also a political move, but it failed and Brabrand was only given a one-year contract extension, which is soon to expire.

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So he did it for professional reasons?

Still not political.

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You're a total dolt.  The School Board is deeply political.  Brabrand wanted to suck up to a group of overtly political School Board members.

His actions were political, as were theirs.  They weren't about attracting the most qualified students to TJ, but enabling School Board members to go out next year and tell people in the Lee, Mason, and Mount Vernon Districts that they've opened up more TJ seats to students in those districts.

It was classic retail, pork-barrel politics, just like a bunch of Congress members fighting over an appropriations bill.  [/quote]

No, possible internal positioning about an individual’s job isn’t political.  :roll:

Rs pushed this as a political wedge issue to get Youngkin elected. He, and his MAGA supporters like Asra, pushed the TJ issue - and other educational issues - hard to garner votes.

Rs politicized the sh1t out of educational “issues”.  TJ, “advanced math”, CRT, masks, etc.

And the idiots fell for it.

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I wouldn’t be calling other people “idiots” when your only talent appears to be recycling - badly at that - FCDC talking points.  [/quote]

I don’t follow FCDC.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the MAGAs frenetically pushing their lies to garner votes.

And to see the idiots who fell for it. 
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You're the idiot for not recognizing the opposition to what FCPS and its lunatic School Board have been doing to TJ is a grass-roots response.  [/quote]

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