Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess opening centers at every pyramid is step 1. Step 2 is to admit the AAP kids by racial percentage in each pyramid. Step 3 is to have TJ admission quota for each pyramid. That will solve the legal problem, by sacrifice the opportunities of the real advanced kids in poor neighborhood.

Already in place--30% not qualified are accepted to meet exisiting quota.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess opening centers at every pyramid is step 1. Step 2 is to admit the AAP kids by racial percentage in each pyramid. Step 3 is to have TJ admission quota for each pyramid. That will solve the legal problem, by sacrifice the opportunities of the real advanced kids in poor neighborhood.

Already in place--30% not qualified are accepted to meet exisiting quota.

"Why" all the "quotes" ?

At our school, very little comes home each week in the early grades. Maybe this isn't the case everywhere. I think if teachers were able to give parents more of an idea on what children are learning, parents would be able to focus the short amount of time they have to helping their children improve and meet milestones.

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully. I don't understand affirmative action; we have a president whose dad is African!

Exactly. The president of the United States is black. I don't think there is a need for affirmative action in the 21st century.

You are right. We don't need affirmative action. We need to figure out how to get teachers in Title I schools to stop making the classwork in elementary school easier b/c these kids come in less prepared b/c this, while done with the best intentions, is not helpful. We also need to get the parents to understand that they can't depend on the school to be solely responsible for educating their kids, it's a partnership. I think there are a lot of parents who truly don't get this b/c historically in their communities schools have been the sole source of education. I'm sure if there was some concerted effort to change this mindset we would see the necessary progress. I'm also sure I will get negative feedback for what I'm going to say next, but I'll say it anyway. I've noticed that in my DC's AAP class the black students are from immigrant parents, and I think that's b/c their parents have less of a history of the school as the sole educator mindset. No amount of affirmative action is going to solve the real issue, only a concerted effort to make sure that educators and PARENTS give the kids the best academic foundation in their elementary years so affirmative action is unnecessary.

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully. I don't understand affirmative action; we have a president whose dad is African!

Exactly. The president of the United States is black. I don't think there is a need for affirmative action in the 21st century.

Anonymous wrote:So does this mean NO AAP expansion as planned by FCPS? Or can it still happen?

It can still happen.

The School Board work session is this afternoon.

There is no School Board vote on this until January 2013.

So does this mean NO AAP expansion as planned by FCPS? Or can it still happen?

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain why fcps is getting sued for TJ admission standards when TJ is not a fcps high school?

Because fcps runs TJ on contract to the state of VA so fcps also runs the admissions.

Can someone please explain why fcps is getting sued for TJ admission standards when TJ is not a fcps high school?

Yes - Supreme Court is likely to outlaw anything based on racial percentages.

Hopefully. I don't understand affirmative action; we have a president whose dad is African!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess opening centers at every pyramid is step 1. Step 2 is to admit the AAP kids by racial percentage in each pyramid. Step 3 is to have TJ admission quota for each pyramid.

This.

Finally I see the logical connection now between the TJ lawsuit and the AAP expansion. Would the upcoming supreme court decision on the Texas law school admission case have any effect on tis strategy?

Anonymous wrote:I guess opening centers at every pyramid is step 1. Step 2 is to admit the AAP kids by racial percentage in each pyramid. Step 3 is to have TJ admission quota for each pyramid.

This.

Why don't they have a minimum number of students they have to admit from each high school? That should increase the diversity. NCSSM does the same thing by admitting kids from different counties in NC.

Should also help increase property values in the Southern FFX and bring brighter, more involved students and parents into the underserved areas of FFX. Getting the parents involved in those schools is going to go a long way toward getting them the after school math clubs, etc.