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[quote=Anonymous]FCPS is doing the easy thing.......rather than improve the other school to bring up their standards to TJ-like, they want the voters to focus on this in-fighting with quota for TJ.

The assumption is you can legislate equality of results - Wrong, that will never happen.  Even in a family with multiple kids (even identical twins), the results can vary despite as standardize an environment as you can get.

Things that make everyone feel good like grade inflation, not failing kids when they deserve to be failed, victimiziation (its not your fault for not studying hard, its due to the white supremacy) are all hurting our kids and our society.

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”   Jim Rohn

Even kids from a wealthy family (to get into TJ) still has to work VERY hard to get into TJ.  You still have to practice and do hundreds of extra questions to prepare.  The tutors do not provide any magical dust - they teach the kids and provide them with tips or additional questions to practice.  It is like saying because someone hires a professional athelete to train you kid, he will be the star of the football team!

Questions for TJ or other standarize tests are available in the library or local schools - if a URM kid does all the questions and work hard, they can get into TJ as well.  It almost appear to be blantant racism against URMs that you need to change the rules to the game because they can't compete with the same rules as the other minorities (non-whites).

Govt programs that "encourage" the breakdown of the family structure is a big cause of the lack of advancement among URMs.  Numerous studies have shown that families with 2 parents have kids more likely to be successful.  You can see this with blacks from Africa that have no problem with achievment in our society (taking advantage of the lower bars for URMs in the U.S.) - they account for majority of the "blacks" at Ivy Leagues (but the Ivys don't care where their URMs are from as long as they get to check to box for diversity, but is that really helping the African Americans in the U.S.?)

This same type of "unfairness" happen all over the world.  In Asia, Africa, and Latin American, there is discrimination among their own people (base on income, casts, skin color.....).  In some of those society, no matter how bright you are, you can never make it because of true discrimination.  If our society is so racist, why is there still people wanting to come to the U.S.?  I don't see a big influx of people going back to their motherland of Africa, Asia or Latin America.

We are teaching our kids to be entitled, dumbing down schools to avoid making kids feel bad for getting a bad grade, trophies for everyone, everyone is a genius - and when they go out to the REAL world, where they are expected to be responsible and accountable, they melt down and need a therapist or coloring book.  Previous generations took on Nazi Germany & true racism of the Jim Crow Laws/Civil rights movement but now when someone call as a name, it breaks us!  When did we start giving those who are true racists so much power in their words?  We should be teaching our kids to feel sorry for those who still think like that - it is almost they think the Earth is still flat![/quote]

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