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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJHSST has such a weird history. It was created by Republicans as a marketing tool to attract defense contractors to the suburban office parks that the real estate developers who contributed to Republican campaigns in Fairfax were building in the 1980s.  Now it’s a pork barrel project for Democrats on the School Board to show how they can allocate a scarce resource (access to TJ) across the county to the rainbow coalition they see as critical in future elections.  At no point has the health and well-being of county students, whether those admitted to TJ or those forced to travel longer distances to other schools because TJ is not available as a community school, come first.

But for the fact that it’s such a flex for the Democrats to show how they can make TJ “their” magnet school, it seems like they would have put an end to this monument to the “race to nowhere“ by now.

So, hard no to OP’s question. [/quote]

I know it's hard to understand from a modern perspective but the Republican party is/was traditionally pro-|education.  The 1980s were before the party became more extreme and wandered away from principles.  So saying that a science magnet high school was created by Republicans in the 1980s is a positive.  [/quote]

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