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Children cannot choose their parents. Kids should not get a leg up in admissions because  they happened to be born to parents who started thinking about TJ and how to best position their child to be accepted there from the time their child entered elementary school. 
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You're inventing kids who simply don't exist in FCPS.  The brilliant, poor kids born to families that don't prioritize education, but who still absolutely belong at TJ would have had to:

-Somehow not be placed in Young Scholar and not get the mentorship and enrichment from that.  My kids' school had special field trips, summer camps, pull outs, and other programs for Young Scholars

-Perform poorly on the NNAT and CogAT, noting that completely unprepped, gifted kids ought to get high scores, and noting that it often only takes a 120-ish score to get into AAP from lower SES schools.

-Fail to impress any teachers anywhere in grades K-6.  If they had impressed teachers, they would have been flagged for advanced services, a teacher would have referred them for AAP, or the like.

-Fail to qualify for Algebra in 7th, even though IAAT is pretty basic, and study materials are readily available.

-Fail to do any of the STEM extracurriculars, even though at least some are offered for free at every single FCPS middle school.

FCPS casts a very wide net and certainly isn't failing to identify and support gifted, lower income students.  At some point, though, the kids have to show some initiative.  They're 14 and not babies.  If they want to go to a school like TJ, they can sign up for STEM extracurriculars and try to distinguish themselves in some way.  [/quote]

Or, you know, they didn't apply to or declined their offer of admission to TJ because they discovered that it was a hostile environment for kids who look like them.

Because of people with attitudes like the ones you find on DCUM. [/quote]
I have two boys in middle school that are Black and been in AAP at Center schools since 3rd grade.  They have experienced the racism the entire time and lots of micro aggressions from the other nonwhite groups in the program and they don’t want to go to TJ.  We have decided to send our kid to a private where they will be more comfortable next year.

The current BS and treatment of Blacks at FCPS is like it was when the schools integrated in the 60’s.[/quote]
Says a white liberal liar who pretends to be a black on an anonymous forum?[/quote]

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