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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/906227.page

Guys, this is as close to the "scandal" as I can find.  One prep center was doing too good. I can see they prepped similar tests and the students, in their excitement and remember they are 14, boasted that they got the "exact" prep question.

Harvesting past test question isn't cheating.  Guys. [/quote]

DP.  Agree.

Plus:  THIS THREAD WAS STARTED FOUR (4) YEARS AGO !!  But someone bumped it:  WHY??

Seems clear that someone out there has a major grudge against TJ, the Curie test prep center, or both.

To that person:  please who you are and what your motive is here? [/quote]

I've been as big a contributor to this discussion as anyone. My intent in initially bringing the matter to light was to highlight the fact that there had been students getting into TJ for years on largely false pretenses.

What happened at Curie (and folks, please stop arguing that it didn't happen - you're living in an alternate reality) was designed to create imbalances in the TJ Admissions process, and did so successfully.

Worse yet, the flagship course that created these imbalances and provided undeserved advantages:
- were available for the low, low price of $5,000;
- committed students to 16 months of targeted study specifically to crack the TJ exam, which was supposed to be secured;
- appeared based on their published list to be only available to students of South Asian descent.

Did Curie do anything wrong? The answer is probably no. But did they expose a massive flaw in the TJ Admissions process that needed to be rectified, creating conditions that led to the adoption of the new admissions process so reviled by the community that they aim to exclusively serve? Yes, yes they did.

As I've said many times before, I bear no specific ill will towards Curie, except inasmuch as they are part of the very problematic industry that seeks to create imbalances in elite school admissions processes that favor families with resources. All I ever wanted was for FCPS to adjust the TJ Admissions process so that families would not be directly and obviously rewarded for participating in that industry.

[b]And again, I and my people won. Convincingly, resoundingly, and with yet another 12-0 School Board and with the Supreme Court declining to take the case, seemingly permanently[/b].[/quote]

While it is true the progressives won another 12-0 Board election (in a non-partisan election), you are wrong to believe your ideas caused that win.

The real reason you achieved another monopoly is simple:

- pro-choice voters turned out in unusually high numbers to stop Youngkin’s pledge to sign a ban on most abortions after 20 weeks, and those same voters simply voted straight-democrat.

Many of these voters don’t even have children.  Many more had no idea whatsoever of the issues in favor or against any FCPS school board candidate.  These voters simply looked at the “democrat sample ballots” and voted as they were instructed to vote by the Party.

THAT is the main reason you “won,” and we are stuck with another ideological monopoly on the Board.

A secondary reason was the massive influx of dark-money (mostly from California), primarily  into Karl Frisch’s campaign.  Frisch amassed over $350,000 for this campaign, compared to nearly every other candidate getting just about $50,000 in comparison, on both sides.

West-coast special-interest dark-money bought chairman Frisch’s seat; and

- that is an achievement you are proud of?  Seriously?? What is wrong with you, PP??[/quote]

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