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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, PP, the Wash Post has done at least three negative articles on TJ in the last month (each one centering around the lopsided Asian admittance) and has also run a whole series on the pressure Asian parents put on their kids re: Math and Science, especially in Korea where a huge majority of parents pay for extra tutoring to increase the child's score on tests. It's not just this thread. Personally, my DC got in to TJ this year and we are probably turning it down in favor of the IB program at Marshall, almost entirely due to the fact that my DC doesn't want to go to a school where the supposedly smartest kids in the county/country need remedial English lessons. DC has many friends who should have been shoo-ins get rejection letters. Here's the hard facts - Fairfax[i] County is only 17% Asian. TJ is now 57% Asian. 224 African American students applied and they took only 6, rejecting two AA students at my DC's GT Center School who are straight-A award winning students. So please don't bash the parents on this thread. Facts are the facts, and lots of folks in the media and local government are focusing on this now.
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So just because jay matthews engages in race-baiting in the wash post it is now well-established that similar arguments are legitimate to express anti-asian stereotyping and derogatory caricatures 
The issue if racial balance at TJ can be discussed without accusing asian kids or parents of cheating or working too hard or being generally undeserving.  If you want more trnaparency or a change in criteria for admission - just state the criteria, no nned to couch it by denigrating asian admits.

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