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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ is long overdue for the use of creative mechanisms other than quotas for bringing in a more diverse population.  It has to happen.  No reasonable person could support the status quo. [/quote]

FCPS re-ups the designation of TJ as a Governor's School every year with the least amount of discussion possible.  The last thing they want to do is get into a big debate over TJ admissions like happened recently in NYC over admissions to Stuyvesant.

Adjusting boundaries in the name of "equity" is for the little people.  TJ is about excellence. [/quote]

Hopefully adjusting boundaries will ultimately, indirectly lead to a more diverse and excellent TJ. [/quote]

Really the only thing they need to do is stop sending such a high percentage of the AAP kids in western Fairfax to a single AAP center - Carson.  Let the AAP kids stay at their base schools and over time you'd see some additional diversity at TJ.  [/quote]

You really won’t. Most kids would revert to Franklin, which is an excellent school with LLiV. It is also already overcrowded.  And then Carson would send half as many kids to TJ.  And the other half would come from Franklin.   They probably do need to break Carson up.  They haven’t because there isn’t room to take the students back at Franklin (the Oakton and Chantilly HS kids). A few SLHS kids might go to Hughes  but estimates are half the Carson AAP kids are Franklin base.  So, you  would need to redraw MS boundaries or expand Franklin. And the next closest MS  is RRMS, itself a megacenter. So, that’s no help.  Fact if, it’s a very, very AAP dense, education focused part of the county. [/quote]

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