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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You will pry FCPS’s systemic racism from its cold, dead hand.[/quote]

So long as white moms roam the county, yes.[/quote]

Did you fall asleep 30 years ago?  It’s test-prep Asians who want to keep TJ as it is with no changes.[/quote]

Ha ha!  The intensity of the TJ program right now (thanks to 30 years on "prep Asians") is so high that most of the soccer/football/basketball kids and their parents would get bent over and run back to base school before the end of the first week.  Be careful what you wish for.[/quote]

yup it's how it is in most asian countries go to school and then go to test prep/hw camp to get into the elite colleges

it's sad we have let that culture permeate which was once an actual STEM magnet to now being populated by people who have been prepping since elementary school[/quote]

What's sadder is that the TJ teachers are now so punch-drunk on power that they refuse to tone down their curriculum.  The new principal was supposedly brought in to bring some level of homework normalcy to the school.  Didn't work out.  She's now implementing programs that encourage the students not to focus on grades!  WTF!.

We have a kid at TJ and there's no way I'm sending my second there.  Terrible school/life balance.  It's almost like we sent a kid to boarding school except that the kid still lives with us and we do a lot more driving around than we would have otherwise.. and to what end?  And yeah, we tried to get him back to base over the course of the past 2-3 years but to no avail...

I think a change along these lines (top 10% of the kids go to TJ) would work but will take a while to pan out.. Either the school will change its approach to teaching and have a more diverse population or the lower SES asian parents will just move to the appropriate school districts to make sure their kids get in..  [/quote]

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