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Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. The vast majority of kids at the wealthy schools were investing 10 to 20K the in prep classes where they were given the answers to the test used to decide admissions. This made it impossible for anyone who didn't have the cash to spend on these classes to compete and kept out all but the wealthy. This was so common that one center alone posted the names of their students who were admitted which accounted for 30% of the entering class that year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. Kids at the low income schools got a huge benefit. Kids at the moderate income schools got screwed and have the lowest acceptance rates among all schools. Take Katherine Johnson MS. Two of the schools feeding into it are Title I, two are wealthy, and half of the kids there were educated at the Title I schools. It doesn't have all of the strong EC programs, Algebra II in house, or special geometry classes like Longfellow or Carson, but it also didn't get any kind of boost for being an underrepresented school since it's an AAP center. It hit only the minimum 1.5% allotment. There are many kids there who were educated in Title I classrooms, aren't quite poor enough to be FARMS, but definitely don't have the resources for prep, tutoring, or enrichment, and effectively had zero chance of being admitted to TJ.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. The vast majority of kids at the wealthy schools were investing 10 to 20K the in prep classes where they were given the answers to the test used to decide admissions. This made it impossible for anyone who didn't have the cash to spend on these classes to compete and kept out all but the wealthy. This was so common that one center alone posted the names of their students who were admitted which accounted for 30% of the entering class that year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. Kids at the low income schools got a huge benefit. Kids at the moderate income schools got screwed and have the lowest acceptance rates among all schools. Take Katherine Johnson MS. Two of the schools feeding into it are Title I, two are wealthy, and half of the kids there were educated at the Title I schools. It doesn't have all of the strong EC programs, Algebra II in house, or special geometry classes like Longfellow or Carson, but it also didn't get any kind of boost for being an underrepresented school since it's an AAP center. It hit only the minimum 1.5% allotment. There are many kids there who were educated in Title I classrooms, aren't quite poor enough to be FARMS, but definitely don't have the resources for prep, tutoring, or enrichment, and effectively had zero chance of being admitted to TJ.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

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Anonymous wrote:Keeping Virginia purple is the best path forward, which means keeping at least a Democratic state senate to rein in Youngkin but also getting rid of the Democratic morons on the School Board next year.

Yes, we need easy access to assault rifles and well women will be fine as 2nd class citizens.

The lame all-Democratic School Board has no role with respect to either of those issues but they have made a hash of those matters within their purview. They are utterly incompetent and need to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Keeping Virginia purple is the best path forward, which means keeping at least a Democratic state senate to rein in Youngkin but also getting rid of the Democratic morons on the School Board next year.

Yes, we need easy access to assault rifles and well women will be fine as 2nd class citizens.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats in the NOVA area will have to pay a price for the sins of FCPS board members.

Not only in NOVA, the whole country is now having a trend turning back to the traditional valuation because Democrats did too much in the past.

I just can't get down with the GOP's regressive positions on assault rifles and women's health.

A questionable admission decision is one thing but purposely putting students in physical jeopardy to score points with gun nuts seems like another.

Anonymous wrote:Keeping Virginia purple is the best path forward, which means keeping at least a Democratic state senate to rein in Youngkin but also getting rid of the Democratic morons on the School Board next year.