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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is just factually incorrect.
Every article I read refers to TJ as the "prestigious" Alexandria VA school.  Being ranked number one in U.S. News and World Report for several years in a row gets the attention of educators and parents who care about this sort of thing. 
I read an article about some parents from Colorado who moved here specifically so their kids could attend TJ.
There wouldn't be the fuss there is now if it wasn't regarded as the best school of its type in the country.
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That's just is, op: Most parents outside of this immediate region don't care about this sort of thing. [b]Link to the Colorado movers, or it didn't happen[/b]. And of course there would be a fuss -- it's still a highly coveted school in this particular region, but that doesn't make it world-renowned.[/quote]

This was in an article in the Washingtonian, entitled "Success Factory," October 2009.

"As the schools reputation grew, a Jfferson diploma became a hot commodity. John Aulabuagh moved his family 1,700 miles from Estes Park, Colorado with an eye to getting his twins. Jack and Alex, into the school."  It goes on to say the parents were positioning the kids to get into Harvard, Princeton or MIT. For their search they relied on the U.S. News and World Report rankings.  They moved to Fairfax, rented a house, and the kids did get in.[/quote]

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