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The AAP screening and TJ admissions policies clearly disadvantage students who are not Asian or white, and relegate then to more crowded schools where they have access to fewer courses and resources.  It is a classic example of a disparate impact.

TJ has been around for a while and there have been plenty of opportunities to make the school more of a community resource or a laboratory for best practices that could be employed elsewhere. It doesn’t happen because TJ doesn’t want it to happen.  The school has become ever more insular over time and the goal of anyone who ever has authority over the school is to reinforce its exclusivity.

If we didn’t have TJ, we’d have many more schools receiving greater accolades, unless you think the TJ families will all take their marbles elsewhere. I don’t think that would happen, but it’s a risk well worth taking in exchange for the greater attention that other schools and communities would receive.[/quote]

How exactly is TJ preventing any other FCPS school from implementing things like 8th period or IBET?  If it's not TJ, then it's either the other HS themselves OR FCPS Administration.  Maybe that's where to focus all this energy.  [/quote]

It ought to be a two-way street, of course, and it isn't.  TJHSST now exists to perpetuate TJHSST.  The TJ administration actually revised the school's mission statement at some point to strip out language that had been in the original mission statement and stated that TJ would be an incubator of best practices to share with other schools.

County schools were fine without TJHSST, and they'll be fine when it returns to neighborhood school status. [/quote]

When were County schools fine without TJ?  1986?  TJ has been a magnet for at least 30 years. How long have you been pissed that it is no longer a neighborhood school?  I know current TJ kids whose parents are magnet school alums FFS.

As for “TJ doesn’t do community outreach” that’s BS.  Here are some of the programs that the TJ community uses to share resources, encourage community involvement and recruit minority talent:

http://blog.jkcf.org/welcome-to-the-jack-kent-cooke-foundation-blog/one-selective-high-school-lifts-students-up-with-enrichment-program

https://www.fcps.edu/index.php/registration/thomas-jefferson-admissions/welcome/stem-resources-and-outreach/outreach

http://www.nvtc.org/membership/getmbrnewscontent.php?code=112

https://tjpartnershipfund.org/outreach/middle-schl-tech-institute/

https://activities.tjhsst.edu/twist/#techstravaganza

https://tjpartnershipfund.org/outreach/usa-science-engineering-festival/

https://hacktj.org/

https://tjsciencefair.wordpress.com/

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/features/eighth-period-clubs-offer-tutoring-middle-and-elementary-schools

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/announcements/josti-conference

https://www.fcps.edu/index.php/node/33463

http://tjpartnershipfund.org/2015/08/msti-and-stembassadors-help-tj-reach-younger-students/

TJ is reaching out. You’re just too full of resentment to reach back.

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