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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you think merit is equally distributed by race? 
There are cultural differences that generates more academic merit in some groups over others. [/quote]

Once again, babies do not choose the parents they are born to. A child does not have more “merit” because of the “cultural differences” of the family they just happen to be born into.

As a community, we need a school like to TJ to bring in the kids who truly need the education provided there. We particularly need to find the kids who have [b]not[/b] been born to families that “generate more academic merit.” Children born to families that encourage academics will do fine, no matter what their level of intelligence is. The bright children born to families that do not have the bandwidth to encourage academics are the kids who truly need a school like TJ.

Kids whose parents encourage academics already won the lottery. It’s the smart kids who didn’t win the lottery who truly need the education available at TJ. 
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This is the hard work of equity. Some kids will be fine because their parents, but these other kids won’t because of their parents? They seem to fine enough to have a 3.9 in FCPS MS though but not fine enough so give them extra points and opportunities over these other kids.

Ultimately this is a prevailing thought process with regards to public school resources. It’s a charity. Ignore kids with good parents and cater to kids with bad parents. We see this in classrooms across the county, not just TJ admissions. This is equity at work.

That’s why many people want AAP and send their kids to centers even if they aren’t truly gifted. Otherwise they are ignored… because they’ll be fine.[/quote]

The PP poster has a fundamental misunderstanding of what TJ has to offer.
They talk about TJ like they have some sort of secret sauce that they hand out that makes random kids smarter.
This is not true.  There's a lot of analogies that come to mind.  
Fine sandpaper is useless if you use it on the rough cut.
You stall out if you try to start your car in 3rd gear.
Trying to temper unsmelted ore is a waste of good ore.

For 95% of kids, going to TJ would be a disaster.
For the other 5% it's painful in a "that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger sort of way"
We are seeing this disaster play out as unqualified kids flounder there.[/quote]

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