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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]
keep fabricating stuff. people should have their IQs checked if they believe you're anyone else who isn't a white liberal.[/quote]
What makes me a white liberal and what makes me fabricating?[/quote]

The inconvenience of your lived experience to their precious persecution narrative. There is an obsession now with winning the Oppression Olympics because parts of America are finally reckoning with our horrendous treatment of Black folks for centuries.[/quote]
I’m just sharing my personal experience.  I’ve been sharing my experiences with prejudices and anti-Black racism long before the recent event’s causing discussion.  I’ve lived it and don’t want my kids to suffer and be held back the way I was at times because Of it.

Unfortunately, I feel that I need to and have to teach my kids to counteract racism.  I don’t Ike seeing any person be mistreated because of the color of their skin the way Black people in the US have been.[/quote]

You must be for ending blatant discrimination against Asians. Please join Asian American groups and donate to them like many Asians have for black causes including BLM. [/quote]
BS! Asians will straight up tell you that they are with the woke movement.  And when the say that they are talking about the push for anti-Black racism.  There are exceptions, but for some reasons most Asians have a certain vitriol towards Black people.[/quote]

I think you are projecting. [/quote]

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