Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? It's a local matter and not within his jurisdiction as a U.S. Senator.

True, but he does have a leadership role in the Democratic Party in this state. The optics of the changes are bad.

The lowering of the standards will hurt all students alike, regardless of race. NAACP missed their chance to use the low URM enrollment at TJ as evidence that they need better programs at the schools serving URMs. That would have actually addressed the issue at its roots, and would have benefited att the URMs at those schools. Instead, our local NAACP person pushed for equality in admittance to a merit school. She is either thinking backwards or really does not care about the URM population at large

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems the following conclusions can be drawn from the action of canceling the admissions test.

1. Parents who care = bad. If parents didn't care, they won't encourage their kids to work hard and without working hard, you won't get into TJ or do well there. If there are lotteries, parents just have to enroll. That's easy.
2. Brown people (possibly the dominant color in TJ) are being racially victimized by the action of removing a race-blind test to enforce geographic/demographic quotas.
3. A top-notch school is being taken down because it has the wrong minority. The big loser is going to be Fairfax county.

I am a hugely involved democrat who has been working hard over the last few months for a Democrat victory. I am definitely questioning my own actions, and beliefs of the supposedly anti-racist party that I have been supporting.

Sigh!

Vote democratic at the Federal level, republican at the local level. That's how you get a government aligned with your values with checks and balances at the local level.

Anonymous wrote:It seems the following conclusions can be drawn from the action of canceling the admissions test.

1. Parents who care = bad. If parents didn't care, they won't encourage their kids to work hard and without working hard, you won't get into TJ or do well there. If there are lotteries, parents just have to enroll. That's easy.
2. Brown people (possibly the dominant color in TJ) are being racially victimized by the action of removing a race-blind test to enforce geographic/demographic quotas.
3. A top-notch school is being taken down because it has the wrong minority. The big loser is going to be Fairfax county.

I am a hugely involved democrat who has been working hard over the last few months for a Democrat victory. I am definitely questioning my own actions, and beliefs of the supposedly anti-racist party that I have been supporting.

Sigh!

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? It's a local matter and not within his jurisdiction as a U.S. Senator.