Anonymous wrote:Lots of Curie kids got in this year. My friend joined his DS in Curie this year. Looks like the changes FCPS made have a big boost to Curie.

Anonymous wrote:where is the evidence of these claims against curie?

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On what legal basis would it be "easy" to shut down a prep company? The prep companies are retooling to help kids get into TJ under the revised criteria. And they are in it for the long haul, unlike the School Board members who just force changes for a short-lived, feel-good moment or two.

The only thing that puts the prep companies out of business is reduced demand for their services.

Anonymous wrote:No, the TJ change was not prompted by outside prep companies. The "prep" is a red herring by a few "Karens" whose kids are lazy and lack talents to compete. They spent way more on travel sports prep.

The school board meetings' notes are public information. The board and Brabrand decided to implement a change prompted by very low admission numbers for URMs and the tragedy of George Floyd.

The "prep" issue is separate and should be addressed as such. The remedy is easy - shutting down all the prep companies or FCS offering similar prep for free to URMs.

Anonymous wrote:No, the TJ change was not prompted by outside prep companies. The "prep" is a red herring by a few "Karens" whose kids are lazy and lack talents to compete. They spent way more on travel sports prep.

The school board meetings' notes are public information. The board and Brabrand decided to implement a change prompted by very low admission numbers for URMs and the tragedy of George Floyd.

The "prep" issue is separate and should be addressed as such. The remedy is easy - shutting down all the prep companies or FCS offering similar prep for free to URMs.

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Anonymous wrote:Did somehow people cheat to get into the school?

In a nutshell, one prep company prepped 28% of this years freshman. That’s 133 kids. It’s insane given how competing the prep company market is in NVa. Two years ago, they got 51 kids in and last year it was around 80. The company has been around for YEARS, so such a massive increase raises eyebrows. The company (foolishly) posted the lists of first and last names TJ admits to their FB page each year, so it’s easy to verify.

THEN, current TJ students started posting online on various social media that the company HAD A COPY of the test ahead of time. This test is supposed to be “unpreppable” but the company got students to report back what the questions were after the test. Then they used that to help the students taking the test on the accommodations day, summer round admissions and of course for the next years class. Apparently FCPS and the owners of the TJ admissions test have been watching the company for a while, so this was a good opportunity to do something. This prep company is making millions off of gaming the TJ admissions process.

Added on top of that the this prep company virtually ONLY preps students of one specific background. Added to that almost no Hispanic or black students were admitted and girls were sorely underrepresented as well. It just looks disgusting and simply cannot continue.

Our very own Varsity Blues-type scandal for FCPS. Awesome, thanks cheaters for creating a problem during a time when there are already plenty of problems.

This sounds credible but are there any credible sources for this information?

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Anonymous wrote:Did somehow people cheat to get into the school?

In a nutshell, one prep company prepped 28% of this years freshman. That’s 133 kids. It’s insane given how competing the prep company market is in NVa. Two years ago, they got 51 kids in and last year it was around 80. The company has been around for YEARS, so such a massive increase raises eyebrows. The company (foolishly) posted the lists of first and last names TJ admits to their FB page each year, so it’s easy to verify.

THEN, current TJ students started posting online on various social media that the company HAD A COPY of the test ahead of time. This test is supposed to be “unpreppable” but the company got students to report back what the questions were after the test. Then they used that to help the students taking the test on the accommodations day, summer round admissions and of course for the next years class. Apparently FCPS and the owners of the TJ admissions test have been watching the company for a while, so this was a good opportunity to do something. This prep company is making millions off of gaming the TJ admissions process.

Added on top of that the this prep company virtually ONLY preps students of one specific background. Added to that almost no Hispanic or black students were admitted and girls were sorely underrepresented as well. It just looks disgusting and simply cannot continue.

Our very own Varsity Blues-type scandal for FCPS. Awesome, thanks cheaters for creating a problem during a time when there are already plenty of problems.

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the Asian students cheated their way on SAT/ACT .... because they seem to be overrepresented in the high score portion of every academic test k-college. There is no other explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:These math essay questions should be having similar patterns, so it should be a coincidence that the kids saw the question that they practiced. If you google for Math questions you will get questions that could be in the next exam(hopefully lottery doesn’t go thru), this is no big deal.
Usually these math questions are like 2 rabbits are placed in an isolated island, in one month they become 4, in 2 months they become 8... find the number of rabbits after so and month. This question can be asked with penguins instead of rabbits. If the exam is predictable change the test to grade the kids, don’t just replace it lottery.

FCPS has learned with AAP and TJ that no matter how many millions of dollars they spend to make a test secure, cheaters find a way to cheat. They have decided that for TJ it is best to get rid of the tests that advantage cheaters. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. The lottery with a screening benchmark gets them out of a perpetual need to spend millions changing the test to foil cheaters.

We should institute a lottery system for top universities because too many white parents cheat and bribe to get their kids into them.

Well, get rid of legacy preference for a start.

Anonymous wrote:LAWSUIT CALLS NEW ARLINGTON SCHOOL LOTTERY UNFAIR TO WHITE CHILDREN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/....-11df-4ca2-93ea-9ffd38e49625/