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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, PP, the Wash Post has done at least three negative articles on TJ in the last month (each one centering around the lopsided Asian admittance) and has also run a whole series on the pressure Asian parents put on their kids re: Math and Science, especially in Korea where a huge majority of parents pay for extra tutoring to increase the child's score on tests. It's not just this thread. Personally, my DC got in to TJ this year and we are probably turning it down in favor of the IB program at Marshall, almost entirely due to the fact that my DC doesn't want to go to a school where the supposedly smartest kids in the county/country need remedial English lessons. DC has many friends who should have been shoo-ins get rejection letters. Here's the hard facts - Fairfax[i] County is only 17% Asian. TJ is now 57% Asian. 224 African American students applied and they took only 6, rejecting two AA students at my DC's GT Center School who are straight-A award winning students. So please don't bash the parents on this thread. Facts are the facts, and lots of folks in the media and local government are focusing on this now.
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Ok, but then isn't it just that this group wants it more and is willing to work harder to get there?  It is a competitive world out there, and if there are people out there who are willing to drive themselves longer and harder to succeed, then you have two options.  You can (a) take yourself out of the game or (b) get thee to Kumon.  Instead, you whine and complain that the Asians "cheat."  Well sorry.  The year I graduated from my public h.s. in Fairfax, the class booed the Asian valedictorian because there was a rumor that she had "cheated" to get her grades.  I know first hand that this rumor was started by some very nasty, racist white girls who thought it was funny to pull this kind of crap.  Of course everyone believed it, because how else could she have been so successful without cheating.  No proof, of course.  It makes me sick to this day to think that this poor girl who had worked so hard and had sacrificed so much got booed at a moment she should have enjoyed, and which she earned.

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