Students living close to TJ will be forced to cross both 395 and 495 to attend Edison next year.

We want our neighborhood school back.

Enough is enough.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1% send their kids to expensive private schools like president Obama.
If people send their kids to public schools, the chance is that they are not part of the 1%.
TJ is a public school, and you have to earn your way in. It needs to be fair.
You shoudn't get advantage just because of your skin color.

TJ is a public school and it should be for students who live near TJ, not the 1% ers.

It is wrong to overcrowd other schools and force students who live near TJ to cross major highways to attend school because they are not considered good enough.

Stop favoring wealthy whites and Asians and give us back our community school now.

Huh? I live walking distance to tj. The zoned high school is Annandale and you don't need to take any highways to get there.

Anonymous wrote:
Truth is, the admissions office does not ask or consider race, but the results are highly scewed in favor of whites and asians.

Not true. Admissions office/application *DOES* ask for race/ethnicity of each student on the application for TJ.

Anonymous wrote:1% send their kids to expensive private schools like president Obama.
If people send their kids to public schools, the chance is that they are not part of the 1%.
TJ is a public school, and you have to earn your way in. It needs to be fair.
You shoudn't get advantage just because of your skin color.

TJ is a public school and it should be for students who live near TJ, not the 1% ers.

It is wrong to overcrowd other schools and force students who live near TJ to cross major highways to attend school because they are not considered good enough.

Stop favoring wealthy whites and Asians and give us back our community school now.

Truth is, the admissions office does not ask or consider race,

Truth is, you are wrong.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/todays_paper
A racial gap for criminals seeking mercy
Review of selection process over the past decade shows results have heavily favored whites
By Dafna Linzer, Sunday, December 04,12:20 AM

This is a great article in Post Today...and so analogous to current TJ admissions process. Truth is, the admissions office does not ask or consider race, but the results are highly scewed in favor of whites and asians. You must have a family that is able and motivated to give you a whole lot of support, lots of extra resources in time/money/discipline/transport to extracullicular activities, to be successful in the TJ admissions process.

1% send their kids to expensive private schools like president Obama.
If people send their kids to public schools, the chance is that they are not part of the 1%.
TJ is a public school, and you have to earn your way in. It needs to be fair.
You shoudn't get advantage just because of your skin color.

Anonymous wrote:No surprise that those who favor trickle down economics favor trickle down education.

Change is coming. You can embrace it or ignore it.

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/new-guidance-supports-voluntary-efforts-promote-diversity-and-reduce-racial-isol

Latinos and Blacks are the 99%?

No surprise that those who favor trickle down economics favor trickle down education.

Change is coming. You can embrace it or ignore it.

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/new-guidance-supports-voluntary-efforts-promote-diversity-and-reduce-racial-isol

Get a job and get off this board.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Wow, feed someone a little propaganda.

You clearly don't understand the Occupy movement. Did you really just compare an educational institution to Wall Street excesses? Really?

We shouldn't have an advanced institution because most people aren't that advanced? WTH?

You are elitist scum, hiding behind concepts of meritocracy that ignore the financial and familial advantages you were born with.

Today, McPherson Square. Tomorrow, Braddock Road.

Occupy DC. Occupy TJ.

We are the 99%.

What you think 99% is 1% - those who don't have a job and receive welfare/food stamps.
Get a job.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Wow, feed someone a little propaganda.

You clearly don't understand the Occupy movement. Did you really just compare an educational institution to Wall Street excesses? Really?

We shouldn't have an advanced institution because most people aren't that advanced? WTH?

You are elitist scum, hiding behind concepts of meritocracy that ignore the financial and familial advantages you were born with.

Today, McPherson Square. Tomorrow, Braddock Road.

Occupy DC. Occupy TJ.

We are the 99%.

Are you for real? Because you're really coming off like an idiot. No wonder TJ rejected your spawn.

Anonymous wrote:


Wow, feed someone a little propaganda.

You clearly don't understand the Occupy movement. Did you really just compare an educational institution to Wall Street excesses? Really?

We shouldn't have an advanced institution because most people aren't that advanced? WTH?

You are elitist scum, hiding behind concepts of meritocracy that ignore the financial and familial advantages you were born with.

Today, McPherson Square. Tomorrow, Braddock Road.

Occupy DC. Occupy TJ.

We are the 99%.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't support affirmative action/discrimination in admission to educational institutions.

Set up a good standard and stick to it regardless of race/ethnicity.

The privileged will always protect their status. There are few black, hispanic or low-income students at TJ.

The lack of balance in TJ admissions ought to make you ask whether the current standard is a good one. However, like the privileged on Wall Street, you defend a system that elevates the interests of the few over the needs of the many.

Get rid of TJ and replace it with quality schools for all.

We are the 99%.

Wow, feed someone a little propaganda.

You clearly don't understand the Occupy movement. Did you really just compare an educational institution to Wall Street excesses? Really?

We shouldn't have an advanced institution because most people aren't that advanced? WTH?

Anonymous wrote:

Taxes used to be higher. NoVa schools were good without TJ.

Now rich people get richer, while everyone else struggles. Students who live almost next door to TJ cannot go there, so that the children of the wealthy and the Asian bourgeois can solidify the advantages they were born with.

Raise taxes, return community schools to their communities, and stop declaring war on poor people.

We are the 99%.

Again most of the Asians in the area are just motivated hardworking middle class.
They are part of the 99%.