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[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.

[b]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.[/b]

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]

NP
I don't know about the history of this school, but was anything done to reform TJ when it used to be majority white? [/quote]

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