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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved this article

To the parents who are frustrated at the number of mods who could handle TJ work but were turned away, wouldn’t it make more sense to lobby for creating another high school that has this level of challenge so all the capable kids can get the best possible public school education rather than figuring out who to deny this to?  I’d love to see more schools raise their expectations so kids can get as far as they can go.  [/quote]

Yeah sure but we can’t even get a renovation for Mclean HS. A new HS will do nothing to help the very capable students who were rejected this year.  [/quote]
If they are capable of being successful at TJ, they will be successful wherever they go.[/quote]

This.

There have always been capable student not accepted to TJ. Every year there are more applications then spots. And every year the kids who are not accepted attend their base schools or move to a private school. You are all acting like this is a new thing, it's not. You just don't like not getting a spot because a smart kid from a high FARMs school was accepted and your kid was not. And now you are bemoaning that there FARMs kids at TJ and how they won't be able to keep up because they don't have the money for tutoring. [/quote]

doubtful, if you put them all in the same bucket, they would not get into TJ, the new process discriminates if you live in a certain area that has higher test scores and more motivated families with support.[/quote]

I love how people will come up with twisted arguments all because they want to preserve an exclusive magnet, just one they can slap a rainbow on because they think it's good PR.

You need to understand the nuances of normalization of scores. The world doesn't work in absolutes. A GPA of 3.85 from an imaginary first-generation child at Whitman can potentially be far more impressive than a 4.0 GPA from Carson if you take into account the poverty and family hardships that the Whitman student hypothetically endured and still somehow has earned a 3.85. Recognizing that achievements of the poverty class are relatively equivalent to the wealthy isn't discrimination against certain zip codes.[/quote][/quote]

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