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Anonymous wrote:I want everyone to know that we are an Asian family of a TJ kid who was not prepped AT ALL. And we aren't the only ones. STOP SAYING ALL ASIANS PREP THEIR KIDS INTO TJ. IT'S NOT TRUE, AND I'M SICK OF HEARING IT.

Stop shouting. And humblebragging too, while you’re at it.

Anonymous wrote:TJ haters advocate for a communist system that even China and Soviet Union abandoned. It’s pure evil and destroys all the good things (not just TJ). Equal outcome is communism and will never work.

Anonymous wrote:I want everyone to know that we are an Asian family of a TJ kid who was not prepped AT ALL. And we aren't the only ones. STOP SAYING ALL ASIANS PREP THEIR KIDS INTO TJ. IT'S NOT TRUE, AND I'M SICK OF HEARING IT.

Anonymous wrote:There is literally no spin on the current environment at TJ that hasn't been spun many times before.

Diversity among the 70-75% Asian population does not speak to the fact that TJ is in no way representative of FCPS, nor to the fact that few black, Hispanic and FARMS students attend the school.

Any suggestion that this is not acceptable, and that the School Board should look at this as well as the other impact that TJ has on other schools and students within FCPS are invariably met with dismissals of those concerns and, eventually, pointed personal attacks on anyone who dares raise them. The intent is obvious but none the less offensive: to intimidate any School Board or community members who might raise such issues or demand a broader review of the costs and benefits of continuing to operate TJ in its current form.

It is not a good look, and at some point the officials will take on the TJ lobby, despite the pitchforks that you are always sharpening.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that hard to understand people of Indian and Chinese origins have very little in common either by looks, culture, or religion (Indians are more of caucasians than “Asians”). So TJ actually has great diversity even in terms of race. The negative posters on this board obviously knew this fact but chose to mislead people by labeling all of them as “Asians “ so that they sound the same. This is such a shame!

I think the fundamental reason for some people constantly attacking TJ is because it’s not a white-dominant school anymore, regardless of the status of diversity.

This is technically correct. It is the fundamental reason for some people attacking TJ, but not that many.

A much larger and more well-reasoned cohort attack TJ from a diversity perspective because a massive amount of resources are sunk into a school whose demographic looks nothing like the county as a whole.

Another big group attacks the TJ admissions process because its emphasis on demonstration of STEM interest favors families who are both willing to drive their students in that direction from an early age (regardless of their actual interests) and have the resources to do so. They've mitigated the test-prep issue slightly with the introduction of the Quant-Q (which should have a much higher barrier to entry).

Like it or not, it's much more socially acceptable for Indian, Chinese, and Korean families (and those from many other cultures) to dictate their child's path than it is for modern-day American families. This is a big part of why nearly 60% of applications every year come from Asian and/or "multiracial" families. It's not a judgment on that culture to point out that aspect of it - indeed, I think many people in those demographics would tell you that they're very proud of that aspect of their culture.

TJ has a reputation - deserved or undeserved - as a hyper-competitive, cutthroat, STEM-only environment that is highly populated by East and South Asian families who are far less concerned with the complete high school experience than they are with optimizing that experience toward elite college admissions. That reputation deters families of all races (indeed, even some Asian families) from a) engaging in the application process to begin with, b) accepting the offer of admission and c) staying once they're there.

There have never been enough Black/Latinx applications to begin with, and White applications have declined precipitously over the past dozen years. The number of those families (especially Black families) who are actually accepted but decline the offer of admission once they attend Freshman Preview Night and see how few folks look like them is heartbreaking and contributes to the chicken-and-egg problem of representation at TJ. You'd have more Black families interested in applying to TJ (and accepting their offers of admission)....if there were more Black families at TJ.

Anonymous wrote:I want everyone to know that we are an Asian family of a TJ kid who was not prepped AT ALL. And we aren't the only ones. STOP SAYING ALL ASIANS PREP THEIR KIDS INTO TJ. IT'S NOT TRUE, AND I'M SICK OF HEARING IT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is literally no spin on the current environment at TJ that hasn't been spun many times before.

Diversity among the 70-75% Asian population does not speak to the fact that TJ is in no way representative of FCPS, nor to the fact that few black, Hispanic and FARMS students attend the school.

Any suggestion that this is not acceptable, and that the School Board should look at this as well as the other impact that TJ has on other schools and students within FCPS are invariably met with dismissals of those concerns and, eventually, pointed personal attacks on anyone who dares raise them. The intent is obvious but none the less offensive: to intimidate any School Board or community members who might raise such issues or demand a broader review of the costs and benefits of continuing to operate TJ in its current form.

It is not a good look, and at some point the officials will take on the TJ lobby, despite the pitchforks that you are always sharpening.

Here comes the idiot who's been repeating herself since the origin of this forum.

Didn't you just prove her point about the personal insults?

Is this kind of behavior accepted in your culture? I hope your TJ kids have picked up some manners.

You are lecturing on not insulting people by insulting other people’s culture? Wow, white peopel..