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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know how involved she would be in future decisions regarding TJ, but Pat Hynes is talking about having kids selected by geography--in other words, Carson's number would be limited.
Check out her tweets this week:
twitter.com/votepathynes

Apparently, NYC is doing this now.[/quote]

NYC isn’t doing this now.  Which is why the Stuvy numbers are so bad.

And the Eastern NOVA Rep. bring this up every year.  And it gets quickly and roundly shot down in Committee. There is zero taste in the state legislature for messing with TJ’s success. But politicians gotta pander. And really, it addresses the wrong problem.  Rather than whining about Equal TJ representation, Eastern County should be asking why the Western County kids are doing so much better, and what can be done to bring the Eastern County kids up.  Rather than suppressing western county talent. [/quote]

The “talent” is not only in the western part of the county. There are just fewer middle school AAP centers, so you end up with a monster AAP center like Carson.  If the same policies were followed in eastern and western Fairfax, Franklin would also be an AAP center and Carson’s numbers would go down.

[/quote].  It the Western County doesn’t have room to put the AAP kids in Franklin. And if Kid A would get in from Franklin or Carson,  then making TJ take  Kid B from Poe because Franklin doesn’t have room for a Center is silly. [/quote]

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