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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While most posters on this forum are driven by a sense of propriety and not malice - casual anti-Asian racism can lead you here

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/us/metro-atlanta-shootings/index.html

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Some pro FCPS admin posters here may not recognize their own casual anti-Asian racism, but they are perpetuating the same old racial stereotype and prejudice towards Asian communities. They don't really have any hard evidence to back up their assertion but they claimed things like "most TJ parents are here illegally", "far far too many TJ kids having mental health issues", "they cheat and prep", etc. In today's environment causal racism is deadly. Before spewing out your own prejudice ask yourself if you have real data to back it up.[/quote]

It's sad that you are using this tragedy to make your keep TJ it is argument.  SMH.[/quote]

What is sad is how the “reformers” are following the Trumpian approach to make their majoritarian argument.  Mexicans are rapists and Asians are one-dimensional cheaters.  Stereotypes and name calling is the way to go.  George Floyd was an isolated tragedy - how uncouth of you to use a tragedy to trigger a discussion on systemic racism.  Deny the problem.  Ignore leading indicators that point to anti-minority sentiment.

There is clearly reform needed on TJ admissions but the current approach is how poll taxes were used to bypass the fifteenth amendment.  The new method gets the outcome the School Board needs and in the larger scheme of things equity vis-a-vis Asians is affordable collateral damage.  [/quote]

This is nonsense on about ten different levels. The only reason this conversation is even tangentially about Asians is because they are over represented in the TJ community by a factor of about 3.5-4.

You don’t get to cry “equity” when the likely upshot of all of this is that you become a slightly less dominant majority.

Kids at TJ (of all races) graduate with significant deficiencies in cultural fluency because they exist in a homogeneous space. That was the case when TJ was 60% white, and it remains the case now that TJ is 70+% Asian.

What you’re upset about is that the new process makes it more difficult to exert parental influence and resources on the process, and you believe you’re entitled to that advantage because you care more about TJ from an earlier age than other parents.

But the reality is, both the kids who get in to TJ with this new process and the kids who DON’T get in because of this new process will exist in spaces that are far more likely to produce positive educational environments and outcomes for the respective students.[/quote]

I, and many others, disagree with pretty much everything you just said.  You are also disparaging TJ graduates and could not be more wrong about their cultural fluency.  This forum is packed full of complainers that know nothing about the school other than the fact that their little Larlo couldn't get in because he isn't as bright as mommy and daddy thought he was.[/quote]

The staggering lack of cultural fluency displayed by the folks claiming to be TJ parents on this form kinda proves my point. The apple, as it were, doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

But unless you’ve had dozens of conversations with TJ graduates centering around how different it is to be around kids who don’t look like them in college, kindly have a seat. They know they’re sheltered. And they know they’re brought up with racist attitudes - white kids too, big time, btw. They suffer from the lack of representation as well.

Lord help me if I ever name any kids I have Larlo. I’ll admit that’s amusing.[/quote]

“Lack of cultural fluency”... that’s a new way othering Asian Americans.  Good job, PP, keep the hate alive.[/quote]

Ain’t all of them, and it ain’t just them. It is a natural outgrowth of existing in homogeneous spaces.

It’s not TJ kids’ fault, and the problem - as referenced - isn’t at all limited to the Asian American population. So no, they’re not being “othered” here. Good try though![/quote]

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