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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ Parent here who supports reform.

I have additional thoughts on the FARMS rate.

First, I agree that the SES of families provides a tremendous admissions boost, whether that consists of educated parents who know how to game the system to affording extracurricular activities/enrichment for STEM.

But I also believe that some logistical aspects of TJ discourage FARMS families from applying and need to be looked at. For example, the longer school day means that it is very hard for kids to have after school jobs to contribute to family income or for kids to provide childcare for younger siblings. Second, the transportation (no late buses) means that kids can't participate in sports or band or clubs (outside of 8th period) unless their parents can come pick them up.

Not sure what to do about this, but think that every aspect of TJ needs a hard look to increase diversity. [/quote]

Who cares about diversity I want the smartest kids in there period[/quote]
They aren't the smartest. They are the best prepped. [/quote]
I recently watched a DNA documentary, and they said that intelligence and intellectual abilities are passed through the genes. However, they said that if a genetically intelligent person doesn’t study and read and spends their days doing nothing, a person with not so great genes can study hard and surpass. Taking this into account, if a genetically more intelligent child whose parents were allowed to come here because of their superior technical skills studies hard, they will have better results than a person of an average intelligence. Therefore it’s so hard to compete with the hardworking children of immigrants who were invited to the US exactly because of their extraordinary intellectual abilities.[/quote]

The Chinese have to steal our inventions and everything on our production lines because they are not innovative or creative.  They learn by rote.[/quote] I agree that they steal because my father was an engineer and inventor in the Soviet Union. Several years after its collapse, he and his colleagues were hired by China in order to share and teach them Soviet technologies (which were no longer top secret, but not publicized anywhere). However, this is irrelevant to this thread. Here we are competing not with an average Chinese, but with the best and brightest and most hard working people because this is what immigrants are. They have to work hard in order to succeed in a foreign country, and they had to demonstrate extraordinary abilities in order to be allowed entry to the US.[/quote]

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