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I don't see TJ as a place that should demand that 13 year olds have already devoted their childhood to STEM but should be a place for kids who are smart and motivated and interested in STEM to attend. I also see that many kids do not have the ability to participate in STEM extra curricular activities. Those activities require time, money, and transportation. Yes, many programs offer scholarships for under privileged kids but the child still has to get to the class, which requires transportation and someone to drop off and pick up. Not every child has that ability. Not every ES has the same STEM after school programs. 
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Why opportunities should be given to kids who didn't devote to STEM before and their parents were not willing to pay time and efforts on their children's education? 
Everybody has 24 hours a day. It's equal. The diligent parents do their own full time work and also spend a lot of time and efforts on their children's education. The diligent students spend time on study while other kids spend time on party. Why they should be penalized for the diligent work? 
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This quote highlights the mentality of many in the status-quo community. For them, TJ is a reward for what they consider to be acceptable or correct parenting.

They also create this false dichotomy between students who engage with academics in exactly the same way that they do and students who spend all their time partying or playing video games.

If you have spent any reasonable amount of time with the Class of 2025, you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that these students are not spending all of their time partying and playing video games.

It's part and parcel of the very limited world view and understanding that the GOP operatives play on to convince these folks that something that's "rightfully theirs" is being stolen from them.

And by the way - Trump's SCOTUS appointees had a chance to shut it down and did nothing. And Youngkin has done nothing, in spite of the fact that the Class of 2027 application cycle is beginning BEFORE the case finally gets heard by the Fourth Circuit - never mind when it will make it back to SCOTUS.

You all got played, and the result will be that your children will be less safe and that public schools will be less funded.[/quote]

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Very well said.

Unfortunately, it will just fall on deaf ears.

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