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[quote=Anonymous][quote][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....
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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][/quote]

TJ was originally a base school but the program and renovation targeted it's current purpose so Williams is not incorrect.  FCPS has a long history of moving GT/AAP to fill buildings.  When Carson was new it was even on the table as a scenario for the Longfellow overflow that eventually ended up at Kilmer.  FCPS used GT as a building filler rather than change base school boundaries.  With the ballooning of AAP Kilmer got overloaded so FCPS SB ended up sticking AAP at some base schools.  Carson for 2019-20 had about 363 or 24% out of boundary AAP infused.

Warner and Kaine?  I don't understand why anyone would talk to either about TJ.  Warner was The Guv in Governors School from 2002-06 [Kaine Lt] and Kaine the Guv from 2006-2010.  TJ and URM was a hot topic locally throughout their tenures.  Their tenures also covered part of the period when the demographics were rapidly changing in FCPS.  Kaine wanted to cut 61m from FCPS and VA has never changed funding formulas to account for the huge infusion especially post DACA of students with limited or interrupted formal education.   Many were not the result of new households and a significant number were additions to existing households of sponsors.  Property tax argument moot.

https://www.factcheck.org/2012/09/crossroads-colors-kaines-cuts/

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/02/fairfax_lawsuit_over_school_fu.html

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/08/aa_at_tj_redux.html

See p 15 of the 2020 package
https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/2020%20FCSB%20LP%20Adopted-Amended.pdf

What's the TJ breakdown on base high schools students would otherwise attend?  Base elementary, school attended, MS base, MS attended?  All that bond money and Oakton/Mclean/Cville/Chantilly overcrowding.  [/quote]

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