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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I don’t support continuing with TJHSST under the approach adopted by the School Board in 2020. It relies on the fiction that FCPS - already a massive, inefficient system - can replicate the equivalent of a sophisticated SLAC’s admission department and still address the needs of the 200 other schools in FCPS. That will never happen, so better to face the music now and wind TJHSST down than do further damage to the school and to the system as a whole. [/quote]

Strange take.[/quote]

Right. Because the narcissists at TJ actually love the never-ending fights over who goes there to be the center of attention. It makes you feel more important, never mind the neglect of other schools and issues.[/quote]

Well, how about everyone take a really hard test and the top scorers get in.  That would end the fight from those who got in.  The fight has always been from those who didn't get in.  Always. [/quote]

Once the prep centers started offering classes to game this test the results would be suspect.  We need to do better and ensure all students just not those who can afford prep have a fair shot at these programs.[/quote]

This is why PP's proposal that TJ admissions be simplified so that only those scoring highest on a "really hard test" are accepted will not be adopted.

The left wants to keep TJ open but fight constantly about giving others a "fair shot" (i.e., they want a never-ending dialogue about "equity" and the power to allocate seats to TJ like ward bosses in Chicago allocated city jobs and contracts).

The bickering will never end until the adults in the room take stock of the situation and end the "magnet" program at TJ.  [/quote]

Agree and the right also wants to keep admissions easily gamable by those who can afford to buy the test from the prep centers.[/quote]

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