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Wrong. Hayfield, Falls Church and West Potomac all have high black and/or Hispanic enrollments and are AP schools. And who says IB can't prepare students for a STEM career?

Because science IB courses are only worthwhile at the college level if they are HL vs. SL.

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Wrong. Hayfield, Falls Church and West Potomac all have high black and/or Hispanic enrollments and are AP schools. And who says IB can't prepare students for a STEM career?

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Anonymous wrote:I guess, but why does race now become an issue? Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it? Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race. Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ. Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?

The schools with the high hispanic/black populations are IB schools -- so they don't even get access to AP courses to go on to a STEM career.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess, but why does race now become an issue? Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it? Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race. Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ. Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?

The schools with the high hispanic/black populations are IB schools -- so they don't even get access to AP courses to go on to a STEM career.

Anonymous wrote:I guess, but why does race now become an issue? Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it? Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race. Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ. Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?

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It's mostly a status symbol, and always has been. Go to Walt Whitman HS, Scarsdale HS, Lower Merion HS, Newton North, or New Trier HS, and ask if the students there suffer because they can't attend a specialized magnet. Most people there would laugh because they know how good those schools are. They may not be as highly ranked as TJ, but they serve their communities very well and people there get along with one another. In comparison, TJ has turned into one ugly Spike Lee movie.

stupid comparisons. New Trier for example has about 1% blacks. It's almost all white.
And I dispute the last sentence. TJ is a source of great pride to FCPS and is natioanally, even world-renown. Maybe blacks and Hispanics should study harder.

Wow. Fairfax is an affluent area that has long had a reputation for excellent schools, just like the other jurisdictions. I didn't realize that we need a magnet school so white and Asian kids don't have to go to school with local blacks.
Ask the people who live in Edsall Park and Bren Mar Park whether they like getting moved from Jefferson to Annandale and now to Edison because FCPS turned TJ into a magnet, and you'd get an earful.

to silly and argumentative to even respond to.

Anonymous wrote:Its cultural, asians and to a lesser extent caucasian value education and studying over sports , rap music bling bling etc...

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It's mostly a status symbol, and always has been. Go to Walt Whitman HS, Scarsdale HS, Lower Merion HS, Newton North, or New Trier HS, and ask if the students there suffer because they can't attend a specialized magnet. Most people there would laugh because they know how good those schools are. They may not be as highly ranked as TJ, but they serve their communities very well and people there get along with one another. In comparison, TJ has turned into one ugly Spike Lee movie.

stupid comparisons. New Trier for example has about 1% blacks. It's almost all white.
And I dispute the last sentence. TJ is a source of great pride to FCPS and is natioanally, even world-renown. Maybe blacks and Hispanics should study harder.

Wow. Fairfax is an affluent area that has long had a reputation for excellent schools, just like the other jurisdictions. I didn't realize that we need a magnet school so white and Asian kids don't have to go to school with local blacks.
Ask the people who live in Edsall Park and Bren Mar Park whether they like getting moved from Jefferson to Annandale and now to Edison because FCPS turned TJ into a magnet, and you'd get an earful.

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Anonymous wrote:
It's mostly a status symbol, and always has been. Go to Walt Whitman HS, Scarsdale HS, Lower Merion HS, Newton North, or New Trier HS, and ask if the students there suffer because they can't attend a specialized magnet. Most people there would laugh because they know how good those schools are. They may not be as highly ranked as TJ, but they serve their communities very well and people there get along with one another. In comparison, TJ has turned into one ugly Spike Lee movie.

stupid comparisons. New Trier for example has about 1% blacks. It's almost all white.
And I dispute the last sentence. TJ is a source of great pride to FCPS and is natioanally, even world-renown. Maybe blacks and Hispanics should study harder.

Anonymous wrote:Leave TJ to the pimply Asian boys and their ridiculous, overbearing parents. No one else wants to go there now anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess, but why does race now become an issue? Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it? Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race. Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ. Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?

It's mostly a status symbol, and always has been. Go to Walt Whitman HS, Scarsdale HS, Lower Merion HS, Newton North, or New Trier HS, and ask if the students there suffer because they can't attend a specialized magnet. Most people there would laugh because they know how good those schools are. They may not be as highly ranked as TJ, but they serve their communities very well and people there get along with one another. In comparison, TJ has turned into one ugly Spike Lee movie.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess, but why does race now become an issue? Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it? Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race. Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ. Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?

It's mostly a status symbol, and always has been. Go to Walt Whitman HS, Scarsdale HS, Lower Merion HS, Newton North, or New Trier HS, and ask if the students there suffer because they can't attend a specialized magnet. Most people there would laugh because they know how good those schools are. They may not be as highly ranked as TJ, but they serve their communities very well and people there get along with one another. In comparison, TJ has turned into one ugly Spike Lee movie.

Anonymous wrote:I guess, but why does race now become an issue? Shouldn't they just figure out where the problems are with admission and fix it? Then admission would change relative to new criteria, not race. Honestly I never understood the aura of TJ. Is it just a status symbol for them or do people honestly think their local FCPS public high school with ridiculous numbers of AP classes offered these days isn't enough to then go on to a STEM career?