Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 13:25     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy families spreading out is a good thing.


Renting for 2 years is not spreading out.


For those two years they are engaged with that middle school community. No downside here.


The downside is that the goal of racial diversity is thrown by the wayside.

The mantra will be that we are ok with 70% Asians now as long as they come from different middle schools. Any faux metric to declare success - be it low-income or anything else. What you get with politicians running the school board



If they lock down on families cheating on the application and therefore are able to get geographical and economic diversity I call that a step in the right direction.


Correction

If they are competent enough to frame questions that are not open to interpretation then they might get somewhere. Perhaps they were not incompetent but conniving. They knew that the ambiguous FARMS question will help them get the press release they needed.

Ps: nobody cheated - they responded to questions after checking with FCPS.


Knowingly misrepresenting your family is unethical. Cheating.


Agreed. But that was not the case here. The question was answered literally as requested. Some with doubt checked with Admissions and we’re told it was ok to answer literally.

And before you jump to pointing a finger at me and my family. Don’t go there. If I benefited from these shenanigans I would like to bury the issue and not take it up for scrutiny.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 12:50     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:What happened to the # of Applicants this year?

It fell back from 3,034 in 2025 to 2,544 applicants in 2026.

Is the SB not reaching out to the students or it is showing lack of interest due to multiple reasons mentioned in the DCUM posts.


They heard how tough it was at TJ from 2025 kids.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 12:32     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
What happened to the # of Applicants this year?

It fell back from 3,034 in 2025 to 2,544 applicants in 2026.

Is the SB not reaching out to the students or it is showing lack of interest due to multiple reasons mentioned in the DCUM posts.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 12:14     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:is there any parent contacted the admission office to ask whether they verified the free lunch information?


I did. Over email.

A FOIA needs to happen on this issue. At some middle school, I would not be shocked to learn that ONLY kids that answered yes were admitted. If you said No, you never had a chance.

Hear me out. Take Longfellow, an AAP Center with traditionally up to 200 applicants. There were only 19 seats in the 1.5% set aside. (More could have been admitted from the general pool). If you assume 4.0s for 100 of those applicants and decent essays, admissions will only be possible for those with the 90 points extra for Free Meals. Special Education is so much smaller that it doesn’t even begin to help.

I would not be shocked if every last admitted applicant at Carson and Longfellow said yes to free meals. This is the main problem. Admission was contingent upon having a parent that was willing to read the questions literally and say Yea.



Wow.

A lottery would have been much fairer ultimately. Kids with honest, ethical parents never even had a chance. Their fate was sealed as soon as they checked “no”.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:56     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Better they stop immediately in this summer. We come up with a new board that really cares about the education.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:54     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Is there a way that we impeach the current school board? They did enough bad things.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:47     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:We’ll have another school board next year, right? I hope this time we can get a school board focus on education instead of politics.



Elections are in Nov 2023 and they will not take office until Jan 2024. The new school board will not be seated in time to influence the classes of 2027 or 2028.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:46     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:is there any parent contacted the admission office to ask whether they verified the free lunch information?


I did. Over email.

A FOIA needs to happen on this issue. At some middle school, I would not be shocked to learn that ONLY kids that answered yes were admitted. If you said No, you never had a chance.

Hear me out. Take Longfellow, an AAP Center with traditionally up to 200 applicants. There were only 19 seats in the 1.5% set aside. (More could have been admitted from the general pool). If you assume 4.0s for 100 of those applicants and decent essays, admissions will only be possible for those with the 90 points extra for Free Meals. Special Education is so much smaller that it doesn’t even begin to help.

I would not be shocked if every last admitted applicant at Carson and Longfellow said yes to free meals. This is the main problem. Admission was contingent upon having a parent that was willing to read the questions literally and say Yea.



Please post text of email and response.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:46     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy families spreading out is a good thing.


Renting for 2 years is not spreading out.


For those two years they are engaged with that middle school community. No downside here.


The downside is that the goal of racial diversity is thrown by the wayside.

The mantra will be that we are ok with 70% Asians now as long as they come from different middle schools. Any faux metric to declare success - be it low-income or anything else. What you get with politicians running the school board



If they lock down on families cheating on the application and therefore are able to get geographical and economic diversity I call that a step in the right direction.


Correction

If they are competent enough to frame questions that are not open to interpretation then they might get somewhere. Perhaps they were not incompetent but conniving. They knew that the ambiguous FARMS question will help them get the press release they needed.

Ps: nobody cheated - they responded to questions after checking with FCPS.


Knowingly misrepresenting your family is unethical. Cheating.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:44     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:is there any parent contacted the admission office to ask whether they verified the free lunch information?


I did. Over email.

A FOIA needs to happen on this issue. At some middle school, I would not be shocked to learn that ONLY kids that answered yes were admitted. If you said No, you never had a chance.

Hear me out. Take Longfellow, an AAP Center with traditionally up to 200 applicants. There were only 19 seats in the 1.5% set aside. (More could have been admitted from the general pool). If you assume 4.0s for 100 of those applicants and decent essays, admissions will only be possible for those with the 90 points extra for Free Meals. Special Education is so much smaller that it doesn’t even begin to help.

I would not be shocked if every last admitted applicant at Carson and Longfellow said yes to free meals. This is the main problem. Admission was contingent upon having a parent that was willing to read the questions literally and say Yea.

Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:35     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy families spreading out is a good thing.


Renting for 2 years is not spreading out.


For those two years they are engaged with that middle school community. No downside here.


The downside is that the goal of racial diversity is thrown by the wayside.

The mantra will be that we are ok with 70% Asians now as long as they come from different middle schools. Any faux metric to declare success - be it low-income or anything else. What you get with politicians running the school board



If they lock down on families cheating on the application and therefore are able to get geographical and economic diversity I call that a step in the right direction.


Correction

If they are competent enough to frame questions that are not open to interpretation then they might get somewhere. Perhaps they were not incompetent but conniving. They knew that the ambiguous FARMS question will help them get the press release they needed.

Ps: nobody cheated - they responded to questions after checking with FCPS.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:09     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy families spreading out is a good thing.


Renting for 2 years is not spreading out.


For those two years they are engaged with that middle school community. No downside here.


The downside is that the goal of racial diversity is thrown by the wayside.

The mantra will be that we are ok with 70% Asians now as long as they come from different middle schools. Any faux metric to declare success - be it low-income or anything else. What you get with politicians running the school board



If they lock down on families cheating on the application and therefore are able to get geographical and economic diversity I call that a step in the right direction.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 11:04     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
We’ll have another school board next year, right? I hope this time we can get a school board focus on education instead of politics.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 10:12     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy families spreading out is a good thing.


Renting for 2 years is not spreading out.


For those two years they are engaged with that middle school community. No downside here.


The downside is that the goal of racial diversity is thrown by the wayside.

The mantra will be that we are ok with 70% Asians now as long as they come from different middle schools. Any faux metric to declare success - be it low-income or anything else. What you get with politicians running the school board
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2022 10:09     Subject: TJ admissions results out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy families spreading out is a good thing.


Renting for 2 years is not spreading out.


For those two years they are engaged with that middle school community. No downside here.