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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just you wait till the next elections.

Savor ‘victory’ till then.  The progressives will be the Democrats’ Achilles Heel.  TJ is but a skirmish in the bigger battle to ensure schools are focused on education not virtue signaling.  [/quote]

Youngkin should just go ahead and set up the "Regional Governing Board" consisting of reps from all the participating jurisdictions (which is how TJ should be governed) which he is able to do under the current statute and put the control in that body instead of the FCPS.[/quote]

And FCPS should take back its school and make it local. I'm fine if there's no TJ. [/quote]

Some would be bummed. It is aspirational but the majority would be better off without it since it takes up a lot of time and resources that would be better spend on everyone instead of a few wealthy kids who will do fine anywhere since their parents will see to it.[/quote]

Unfortunately the progressives believe that all meritocracy is elitist and should be abandoned.

When there is a belief that equality of outcome trumps equality of opportunity, you are ringing the death knell of any meritocracy.  And that does not auger well for the American Dream.  But that is the New American Dream of our esteemed Progressives.  If they can’t have it, nobody else can have it.  [/quote]

If you are paying attention you’d know the progressives are the ones most invested in maintaining TJHSST with a more geographically and racially diverse student body.  They want to have a magnet school that demonstrates that when barriers of racism and classism are reduced, elite institutions throughout American society will look more like the TJ they’ve created.  That is their “Dream” and why they are so committed to a “better” TJ.

It’s actually the pragmatists who’ve seen years of fighting over TJ, accompanied by the neglect of so many other schools in FCPS, who have come to the conclusion that it’s become too much of a diversion. It’s not that we are anti-merit, but rather that we’re tired of watching the far-left and far-right fight with each other and suck all the oxygen out of the room.  We would rather have FCPS pay more attention to the 97% of kids not at TJ, many of whom deserve better from FCPS when it comes to recognizing their merit and cultivating their talents. [/quote]

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