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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see much evidence that Asian kids flooded into "under-represented" middle schools like Whitman and Holmes this past year to "game" the new process.

It seems more likely to me that Asian families will just anchor in the top pyramids so they can hedge their bets (still have their kids apply to TJ, but rest assured that the alternative is Langley/McLean/Oakton/Chantilly/Woodson).  And, as TJ becomes seen primarily as an alternative to lower-performing high schools, fewer of their kids will apply, just like Asian families in MoCo send their kids to Wootton with only some considering the Blair magnet. [/quote]

Correct. Asian will stay in top school zones.[/quote]

Some will have a small house in a lower ranked area and a larger house in the top zone.[/quote]

Seems so overkill for high school.  TJ is just a high school in the end.  No one cares if you went to TJ later in life and college outcomes aren’t really better because it’s so competitive. If you read their confessional page, cheating is rampant and kids are totally unhappy.  It’s crazy to me that folks are this desperate for TJ.  Get a life.[/quote]

TJ is soooo shiny.
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This thread is intended for people interested in TJ.  This is not a place to bash TJ as that point is going to fall on deaf ears.  What is your purpose except maybe as someone embittered that TJ is unattainable?[/quote]

I’m not bashing TJ. I’m bashing the parents who have been plotting their child’s path for TJ admissions since 2nd grade because they are obsessed with the prestige.

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Why would you bash parents who want their kids to be successful?  You seem to be obsessed with perpetuating a particular stereotype of a TJ applicant in the past in order to justify a new process that, as this thread indicates, has been anything but smooth.  You've offered next to nothing to suggest that the new process is better at identifying students who may have an actual interest in, or aptitude for, STEM.  [/quote]

I'm bashing parents fostering an unhealthy, toxic environment for our kids. 
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You could always raise your kids as you see fit, and stop interfering with how other parents raise theirs.

It reeks of privilege for people like you to assert that other parents are somehow fostering an "unhealthy, toxic environment" for your kids.  It's like you think you're the ones who should always decide the rules and the appropriate cultural norms.  [/quote]

Hmm.  I wonder why teen suicides are out of control.  Don’t get me wrong, I blame the sports parents, too.  It’s all too much!  I feel horrible for these kids who have been robbed of their childhood and expected to plan for a career (or to be an Olympian, get a scholarship, etc) from early childhood.  It’s so messed up.[/quote]

You could just as readily ascribe blame to FCPS officials for keeping schools closed so long, with the resultant isolation, lack of social interaction with peers, and loss of learning.  That seems to have much more of an impact on students' mental health than parents encouraging their kids to participate in a Science Olympiad or to apply to TJ.

But, again, if you think it's up to FCPS to counter parents who "rob kids of their childhood," then the logical inference is that you should be advocating for the elimination of the STEM magnet at TJ, and not tinkering with the admissions process to admit more kids who may not be up to the school's challenges.  [/quote]

See, if is all very obvious. The white parents have a playbook which kept them on top. And which they think is the right thing to do. The Asians have a different playbook that they saw. Now that the Asian playbook is winning, whites want to say it is a bad toxi playbook. For a while, whites were embarassed that a minority was doing well. And grudgingly let it go. Then the envy got too much and they started saying you are no longer a minority - let's use the URM weapon to bash them. And here we are. Whatever argument you have - there is a counter. You Asians are just privileged, overworking, cheating, unidimensina, toxic people who need to be replaced. Never mind what your background/income levels are. This is a moment in time to vilify you. There is an absolute problem with the black community which needs to be addressed, but we just have some immigrant kids with motivated patents from Africa and South America being accidental winners here. All power to them. No real impact in areas where there should be. Of course as long as the end result is less Asians. whites are heaving a sigh of temporary relief. There! [/quote]

+10000 - this describes the true politics of the situation exactly.  [/quote]

It's actually driven by the NAACP but the rest is true.  White liberals actually care more about racial issues for URM than actual URM.  And of course the irony is Asians are an actual minority group but not in academics. [/quote]

It wasn’t “driven” by the NAACP.  Changing TJ admissions was very far down the list of their priorities heading into 2020.

It was Atif Qarni and Scott Brabrand who decided to treat Floyd as the pretext for changes at TJ.  Brabrand saw it as his opportunity to get back into the good graces of the mostly white School Board.  As Rahm Emanuel once said “never let a serious crisis go to waste.”  It became the opportunity for the whites resentful of Asian success to put the Asian families in their place under the pretext of helping other URMs.

Of course, they deny that they are trying to discriminate against Asian kids, so they cloak it in reducing the number of kids from “over-represented” schools that just happen to have large Asian enrollments.  They further label all those families as “wealthy” families who are “grooming” their kids for TJ, even when the Asian families may have scraped to live in those districts and not have had the means to pay for extra tutoring, etc.

The whole situation has been repugnant, and the School Board members who either foisted this on families or cowardly went along with it despite their reservations (especially Tholen and Pekarsky) need to be removed next year. [/quote]

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