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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess, but why does race now become an issue?  Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it?  Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race.  Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ.  Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?[/quote]

It's mostly a status symbol, and always has been.  Go to Walt Whitman HS, Scarsdale HS, Lower Merion HS, Newton North, or New Trier HS, and ask if the students there suffer because they can't attend a specialized magnet.  Most people there would laugh because they know how good those schools are.  They may not be as highly ranked as TJ, but they serve their communities very well and people there get along with one another.  In comparison,  TJ has turned into one ugly Spike Lee movie.
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stupid comparisons. New Trier for example has about 1% blacks. It's almost all white. 
And I dispute the last sentence. TJ is a source of great pride to FCPS and [b]is natioanally, even world-renown[/b].  Maybe blacks and Hispanics should study harder.[/quote]

First of all, it's "renowned."
I've lived all over this country and all over the world and I can almost guarantee that TJ is virtually unknown to anybody else in this country except admissions officers (people in other states really could care less about your magnet), and the only international country that may have some fixation with TJ is South Korea. I'd attribute that to the Annandale connection. Get over yourself.[/quote]

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