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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A quick google search is all that is needed .. https://www.fcps.edu/node/47920

SMH at the number of people who are spewing venom because that is what they are good at[/quote]

Is it true that 30 Longfellow kids got in out of 200 applicants versus 1 Whitman kid out of 2 applicants?

What is FCPS hiding by not releasing the number of applicants from each school?  [/quote]
This convoluted percentage game is masking the actual number of applicants per school. If that were disclosed, it would expose the inconvenient truth of admissions manipulation.  [/quote]

It is not hiding anything. We all know that there are schools where a lot of kids apply and schools were only a handful apply. That is well established. Part of the reason they moved to seats for every MS was to increase the number of kids applying from all MS because kids would know that there were slots for kids from that MS. In the past kids would apply from a school and no one would be admitted. A history of this discouraged kids from applying.

Part of the reason why they moved to a requirement for a common course load and not extracurricular activities was so that kids from schools that did not have those extracurricular activities or access to RSM/AoPS/Curie/math enrichment classes would be evaluated on an equal footing.

They don’t identify numbers under 10 because it makes it too easy to individually identify a child. But everyone knows the schools that rarely had kids at TJ and can see that at least kids are applying and attending. Hopefully as kids at the MS see classmates attending, more kids see tj as attainable and work towards attending there. Hopefully that leads to more kids applying themselves in Math and Science and challenging themselves.

If there were 2 applicants from Whitman and only 1 was in the top 1.5%, that kid would be admitted, the other probably would not receive an offer. The remaining slots would go into the open pool.

Carson, Longfellow, and other schools have long had hundreds apply and not be accepted. The numbers have increased because of the guaranteed seats but they still dominate the admissions categories. I would like to see TJ applicants have Geometry by the end of 8th grade because I don’t think it makes sense to attend tJ and not have the math background to access the specialized math and science classes. That said, I think TJ is a FCPS magnet school and it should be open to all kids from FCPS. I like that there are seats for every school. And yes, this might bite my kid in the butt in a few years if he chooses to apply, he will be attending Carson because it is his base school.[/quote]

TJ should not be open for all students, but for qualified students who have proven mastery of middle school stem subjects.  It is racist to use geographical quota as a proxy to conduct racial balancing, especially to lower strength of asian american students.  It is racist to say students are from wealthy families when they allocate their limited money towards RSM/AoPS/Curie/math enrichment classes, instead of towards basketball, football, baseball, soccer, etc.  It is racist because asian american student families are well known to allocate their limited money towards RSM/AoPS/Curie/math enrichment classes.  
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The students being selected now are more than qualified as these past years have demonstrated. The only thing this does is ensure that selection is open to all residents and not limited to the wealthiest schools[/quote]

This is false, as there is no evaluation test to determine if every student being admitted is qualified.

It is racist to call middle class asian american students as wealthy when they use their limited familiy income resources for enrichment classes instead of basketball and sports league fees.  [/quote]

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