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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a big disconnect between the people who try to correlate TJ admissions reforms with improvements in students' mental health.

The Asian kids whom they implicitly suggest are hyper-competitive and toxic will not have different parents or abandon their ambitions if they are attending Langley or Chantilly rather than TJ.

URMs who end up in the rigorous, demanding environment of TJ may be particularly prone to self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy if they can't keep up with the curriculum (see "imposter syndrome").

If you think TJHSST is problematic, then you should be advocating for the winding-down of the competitive magnet program.  And if you think it's up to the system to take actions to reduce the pressure on students county-wide, get rid of the IB Diploma program and cap the number of AP courses kids can take.

Instead, you've somehow convinced yourself that implementing a more random admissions system at TJ will make the school a kinder and gentler place and have big ripple effects throughout FCPS.  Most of us aren't buying it.  The changes were a crude way to do anything other than just provide a small number of kids who'd otherwise attend low-performing schools with somewhat higher odds of attending a better school. [/quote]

I absolutely think we should wind down TJ!  And scale AAP way back, if not eliminate it.  Most kids do not “need” these programs and we spend a ton of money on a very few kids.  I’d rather see us spread the money around and raise the bar for everyone.

I want to point out that it is a racists assumption that an URM will be overwhelmed and cannot survive at TJ.  If that is true, what is the answer? Let them whither on the vine and not reach their potential?  How do URMs ever get ahead then?  How do we ever level the playing field and keep TJ?  It is an argument in favor of getting rid  of TJ and sending the money to the schools where kids have lower resources.  Why should a bunch of relatively high income kids get all the benefits?  Find a way to make it accessible to all without extensive prep and courses that sell the answers or get rid of it.

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Destroy the best high school in the country because a certain group is underrepresented?[/quote]

Keep it and allow only a privileged few to benefit?[/quote]

The foreigners can come to America with nothing and within a few years, get into the top schools.  No privilege required.
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