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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just you wait till the next elections.

Savor ‘victory’ till then.  The progressives will be the Democrats’ Achilles Heel.  TJ is but a skirmish in the bigger battle to ensure schools are focused on education not virtue signaling.  [/quote]

Youngkin should just go ahead and set up the "Regional Governing Board" consisting of reps from all the participating jurisdictions (which is how TJ should be governed) which he is able to do under the current statute and put the control in that body instead of the FCPS.[/quote]

And FCPS should take back its school and make it local. I'm fine if there's no TJ. [/quote]

Some would be bummed. It is aspirational but the majority would be better off without it since it takes up a lot of time and resources that would be better spend on everyone instead of a few wealthy kids who will do fine anywhere since their parents will see to it.[/quote]

Unfortunately the progressives believe that all meritocracy is elitist and should be abandoned.

When there is a belief that equality of outcome trumps equality of opportunity, you are ringing the death knell of any meritocracy.  And that does not auger well for the American Dream.  But that is the New American Dream of our esteemed Progressives.  If they can’t have it, nobody else can have it.  [/quote]

Why does one need to trump the other? Both matter. Or maybe put another way, almost every agrees with the idea of equality of opportunity on the face of it, but that alone is not enough. When you have sustained unequal outcomes for large chunks of the population over time then it's a pretty good indicator that what seems like equal opportunity on its face very probably has some underlying systemic bias or inequality and you probably need to think a layer deeper than "BuT tHeY aLl TaKe ThE sAmE tEsT!!!"[/quote]

Exactly. As always, conservatives and those who champion their causes always major in defining the terms of the argument, and in this case, the attempt is to claim that academic merit can only be achieved through standardized exam scores or through performance in academic competitions.[/quote]

Not the only way, but the best way.  This is how the entire world does this - by a standardized test that everyone takes and then they are ranked against each other.  [/quote]

Standardized exams are good for determining who is good at taking standardized exams and not much else. There are very few areas where you can make a career out of being good at standardized exams.[/quote]

I see, so the Bar Exam, Medical Boards, CPA exam, etc. should be dropped (or test optional).[/quote]
We are talking about kids and not adults[/quote]

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