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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the best for OP and her future studies, but reading this at a time when TJ's admissions practices and continued use as a magnet are getting serious attention feels a bit like Donald Trump sending Ivanka out to do PR after he's stepped into it again. [/quote]

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Lol I didn’t consciously do it for that reason, but I could definitely see that. Ivanka is honestly kind of janky tho tbh so I’m not sure how effective her PR is. Anyway at the time I made the forum post I wasn’t really thinking about the negative conversation surrounding TJ —I was just looking at some outdated threads about TJ on here—but I know that there are a lot of alumni calling for TJ to end being a magnet school since it only serves a privileged subset of the population. Honestly, their arguments make a lot of sense. I’m admittedly not as informed as some others about initiatives that have been proposed in the past or what people have proposed and why, so I’m not really against or for defunding TJ as a magnet school. There are a lot of articles from the past 15 years or so about issues with TJ’s admissions—I’m sure a google search would bring up a few of these. The systematic racism that the admissions cycle demonstrates is definitely a large issue that has been a problem for many, many years—and I am in full support of changing the admission system or even further measures that would make TJ more equitable and fair for students in FCPS. There’s...a lot of different thoughts in the student body about what the alumni are proposing in the Facebook groups. TJ Vents demonstrates a few of these different thoughts. As current students we probably have a different view than the alumni do. But for now, I’ll still answer questions about what it’s like to attend if anyone still has them. [/quote]

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