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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow lots to read but thank you for the summary. Early identification of URM students and early mentoring can help achieve equity without discrimination against another group.  [/quote]

Agreed.  But how do we do this?  Very important issue so I am truly interested in hearing how this can be achieved.[/quote]

If you read through the docs, there was a blurb backed with actual stats that there were enough URM black and hispanic kids in level IV centers taking geometry in 8th to fill half a TJ freshman class, but they were not applying for TJ .

If the students are prepared, but not interested, [b]for whatever reason[/b], then lowering the standards to something almost any fcps can meet (algebra in 8th and low GPA cut off for middle school) is a huge mistake.

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As a parent of a TJ kid, I think the bolded needs to be looked at.  WHY are kids/parents not interested?  (And some are overly interested.)  [/quote]

Why is it hard to understand that a 45+ minute commute to high school isn't desirable for a lot of kids especially if it means having to drop sports and activities. [/quote]

It is almost comical that nobody has brought up the issue of peer groups as a reason why some of these qualified URMs are not choosing to attend TJ.  Get a critical mass of URM students in there and then see if that[b] changes the perception of TJ as an Asian/White magnet school.  
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I wholeheartedly support Dr. Brabrand and the SB on this issue.  [/quote]

No one perceives TJ as “Asian/White.”  The student body was consistently 80% Asian, with the remaining 20% a mix of other races.

But in the past, all the TJ students had one thing in common:  they were judged and admitted on the content of their academic achievement, rather than on the color of their skin.

Racist new criteria were introduced by Brabrand and the current SB.

How can you possibly support these racists, and their racist policies?  It is all out in the open now (not to mention a focus on TJ admissions at the expense of dealing with the Covid-19 crisis).[/quote]

I think you know the answer to this.  This county has a lot of hard-core liberals and Democrats who supported changing TJ admissions, by whatever means necessary, and simply look at the process by which FCPS arrived at that decision, not matter how ugly and contrived, as a distraction that they'll dismiss as the "sausage-making."

I don't think for a second the goal of the White liberals was to increase the number of White students at TJ.  It was to increase the number of Black, Hispanic, and FARMS kids at TJ so that they could burnish their own reputations as "allies" of those communities on a much broader range of social issues.  Ultimately, it is very much about self-interest, and Asian kids are the sacrificial lambs in the process, but it's not just about increasing the percentage of White kids at TJ.  Those families are just as happy to see their kids go to a Langley or a Lake Braddock, because they know their kids enjoy other advantages in life that make attending TJ less important to their future prospects.  [/quote]

So FCPS’s lawyers came up with a contrived statement by Pekarsky to the media about the sausage-making: https://www.wusa9.com/amp/article/news/local/virginia/fcps-lawsuit-over-controversial-admissions-policy-scheduled-court-hearing-next-week/65-b8f95ea4-e728-4712-8bca-5fc81ae58af8

Totally predictable, yet utterly unconvincing. [/quote]

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