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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue isn't whether TJ may be an exceptional experience for some students or a miserable experience for others.  It is whether a selective school that is given special treatment in many ways (admissions policies, resources, and use of a building and piece of land) can be justified when there are other schools in FCPS that are seriously overcrowded.  As a matter of basic fairness, [b]the answer clearly seems to be no[/b].

I guess reframing the issue is a good way to try to avoid the fundamental question.  [/quote]

That's not what the VA assembly just said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIsiJ-5oUeY

So please explain the basis for the "clearly" in your statement.[/quote]

I don’t disagree this should be a county decision, rather that a state decision, which is what the VA committee voted down. But it doesn’t change the underlying issues. [/quote]

Ha ha ha!  The whole reason someone tried to introduce a bill was that the county has done nothing over the past several years (and likely never will).

The "underlying" issue is different from what's being discussed here.  TJ is just the strawman.

The real underlying issue is that minorities don't get a fair shot at higher education.  This begins in elementary school.  How about we make all schools AAP and allow kids to be placed into AAP level classes as they choose?  It means better teachers, more pay, etc.  How do we fund this?  More taxes of course..  How many are willing to put up with this?
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