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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you to the Arlington posters on his thread who have validated our decision to not live in Arlington.  We opted against Arlington in favor of Fairfax because of the lily white nature of its good schools and our feeling that, as Asian-Americans, we would be regarded as "other."

Your narrow minded views on Asians in Fairfax and at TJ are just as we suspected. We are much happier in Fairfax surrounded by a variety of hues.[/quote]

No one said they aren't welcome, didn't earn their spots, etc., just that people (of any hue) who move into Fairfax just before TJ admissions year solely to apply to TJ and with the intention of leaving again if they don't get in can't claim that their success at TJ is proof of the quality of the FCPS system as a whole, only of the quality of TJ. I don't think twice about the Asian students or their parents at my child's APS elementary school, let along make assumptions about why they're there, they're simply his friends/classmates and his parents.[/quote]

Totally missing the point.  Posters are speaking derisively of the Asians at TJ and claiming that they are foreigners when there is NO evidence that any sizeable number of TJ students are coming from foreign countries for TJ.  I know plenty of kids that have gone to TJ from our ES and MS and they are all American but many happen to be of Asian origin.  The Arlington posters can't seem to get that these kids are Americans.  And that is why I'm happy to not live there.[/quote]

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