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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Selective listening too much? I guess we are trying to rewrite history here with this incredibly racist move of removing race blind admissions. And forcing quotas. We all know who this elaborate charade really helps. It is not the disadvantaged kids.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More from Vern Williams - sorry I just read this and had to share:

"During my forty-plus years as an FCPS teacher I always made clear that I would never view my students through a racial or cultural lens. I am part of the old school crowd who still believes, as did Martin Luther King, that one should be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. The “One Fairfax” doctrine seems to suggest the opposite view. I sense that changing the TJ Admissions process is only the beginning. Every program for advanced/gifted students ranging from AP participation to AAP will be viewed through a racial lens instead of an academic/readiness lens. I feel that they will be diluted to the point of non-existence."
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Williams lost me when he claimed TJ was built for its current test-in students.  It was not.  It was built for students living in Alexandria, Annandale and Falls Church in 1964.  The school was then taken away from the community for which it was built at the whims of a Republican-controlled county government in the mid-1980s, and FCPS has been dealing with the fallout ever since.

He can solve all the proofs he wants, but he can't rewrite history. [/quote][/quote]

the incredibly racist move or removing one race blind system for a another race blind system that has a regional balance? Right not TJ exists not just for a narrow section of the county in terms of race, but also in terms of geography. TJ was never meant to be just a pyramid school for Carson and Longfellow [/quote]

Longfellow feeds only to McLean HS, which is already overcrowded and has been neglected by FCPS for years. They have no plan to deal with additional kids from Longfellow ending up there rather than at TJ.

So in that sense TJ has become a pyramid school for Longfellow (and Carson). If that bothers you so much, you should have been challenging the School Board when it was allocating almost $40 million to expand West Potomac and almost $20 million to expand each of Justice and Madison, but almost nothing to McLean.  The “planning” in FCPS is abysmal and Brabrand hadn’t even begun to think about the spill-over effects on other pyramids when he rolled out his lottery proposal. Now, several months later, they still haven’t.  [/quote]

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