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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What proof do you have that "they do not check any of the applicants papers to see if they are here legally"?  Students in TJ have to had come from an 8th grade school in this area.  When a student enters middle school here, the middle school is supposed to ask for supporting papers that they live here legally.  The person does not have to be a citizen of this country to be living here legally.  If you look at the current profile of TJ, it states that in the 2009-2010 school year 1770 students at the school were English Proficient.  13 were not.  It seems to me that speaking English is not a big problem in the school.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The process at TJ is clearly out of hand now, and it epitomizes what people hate about Northern Virginia.   I'm glad my DH's job gives him options in other places and we'll be moving soon to a place that isn't so cut-throat and compulsively competitive.  If we wanted to live in Seoul, we'd move to South Korea.   [/quote]

well - it works both ways, we moved here from atlanta precisely because of the more ambitious educational standards - our kids won't have a choice about competing with the kids from seoul or beijing or bombay - global service industries and our own globally-attractive universities compete for the same students/have the same student pool - they might as well get into that mode now - rather than being behind the curve when they are 25 and it's too late.[/quote]

the only thing I disagree with is that colleges admit foreign students [i]as foreign students[/i].  They have to take a test of English as a foreign language and they pay tuition. If the foreign nationals getting into TJ were required to do the same, I'd have no problem with it.  Right now they do not check any of the applicants papers to see if they are here legally.[/quote][/quote]

This has been discussed here and elsewhere several times - the FCPS only requires an alleged parent or legal guardian [they don't check the status] to submit receipts etc. showing they live in one of the counties served by TJ.  [/quote]

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