Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 15:09     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ should be closed and let the money be spent on improving lower income schools.


The result of this will be well-off parents sending their kids to private schools, and further harming the public school system.

(ps: this is why conservatives are attacking TJ, and also why the Koch network of billionaires is funding the lawsuits against TJ. They don't care about our kids. Their goal is personal enrichment.)


Spots in good privates are finite. If a would be TJ kid takes one, then that kid either goes to public or pushes out another kid at a different private. There aren't enough open spots at good privates to absorb TJ students (assuming that 1) TJ parents could afford the 40k a year tuition and 2) that those schools would want them)
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 15:04     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:TJ should be closed and let the money be spent on improving lower income schools.


The result of this will be well-off parents sending their kids to private schools, and further harming the public school system.

(ps: this is why conservatives are attacking TJ, and also why the Koch network of billionaires is funding the lawsuits against TJ. They don't care about our kids. Their goal is personal enrichment.)
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 15:00     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Brabrand and others talked frequently about race. The motive was clear.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 14:50     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

is desegregation a bad thing now?


The previous admissions criteria were race neutral.


the outcome wasn't. Most segregation post 60s is race neutral on it's face- that's how it's allowed to persist for as long as it does


The outcome was race neutral. You just don't like the outcome.


DP. And the new standard is race neutral and now you don't like the potential outcome. Oh well.


Let's let the court decide if its race neutral. "Experience factors" are not race neutral.


Gladly. I’m certain the courts will see through the BS and lies spun by the opposition to reform. The experience factors do not include race.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 13:40     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: The new standards are race neutral. The fact that the number of Asian students might decrease doesn't mean it discriminates against Asians.


Sure, and so were poll taxes and literacy tests.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 11:31     Subject: Re:New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Curious as to whether the change in the TJ admissions policy is incentivizing families who aspired for their kids to attend TJ to relocate to areas that have sent few kids to TJ or instead just to buy in some of the higher performing pyramids like Langley, McLean, Oakton, and Chantilly. Clearly TJ as it previously operated will no longer exist. The only question is whether the next version will be nearly as much of a draw for top-achieving kids.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 10:43     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

is desegregation a bad thing now?


The previous admissions criteria were race neutral.


the outcome wasn't. Most segregation post 60s is race neutral on it's face- that's how it's allowed to persist for as long as it does


The outcome was race neutral. You just don't like the outcome.


DP. And the new standard is race neutral and now you don't like the potential outcome. Oh well.


Let's let the court decide if its race neutral. "Experience factors" are not race neutral.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 00:10     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TJ should be closed and let the money be spent on improving lower income schools.


Aren't title 1 schools funded at a higher level to begin with?


You can drag a horse to the water..
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2021 00:10     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

is desegregation a bad thing now?


The previous admissions criteria were race neutral.


the outcome wasn't. Most segregation post 60s is race neutral on it's face- that's how it's allowed to persist for as long as it does


The outcome was race neutral. You just don't like the outcome.


Equality of choice is what we have. Equality of outcome is what they want. Forced social engineering paid for by you and me. Won't end well.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2021 18:49     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:Have at it...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thomas-jefferson-high-school-admissions-debate/2021/03/26/e730baf6-8c30-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html


This sounds wonderful! So glad to hear that TJ is modernizing its admissions to be less biased.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2021 18:30     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:TJ should be closed and let the money be spent on improving lower income schools.


Aren't title 1 schools funded at a higher level to begin with?
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2021 18:11     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

is desegregation a bad thing now?


The previous admissions criteria were race neutral.


the outcome wasn't. Most segregation post 60s is race neutral on it's face- that's how it's allowed to persist for as long as it does


The outcome was race neutral. You just don't like the outcome.


DP. And the new standard is race neutral and now you don't like the potential outcome. Oh well.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2021 18:08     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:[quote=Anonymous
How are Asians "excluded" from future admissions?


Asians are more likely to be at certain schools, which got many more admissions to TJ.
Now those schools have had their admissions reduced to a certain number, lowering the number of Asians who will get in.

This might get offset by Asians in other schools getting in with the per school quotas at other schools in Fairfax. Some of the
Asians in the former schools will also be moving to the latter schools to take advantage of the quotas.

However, if Asians take all the seats in the other schools, the people who instituted the plan will not be happy.
Their goal is more black and brown people. If there is an essay requirement, that will be graded with an eye on getting more minorities(non-Asian) admitted.


So Asians from some school will be replaced by Asians from other schools, and some Asians might move to get in from a different schools? So you admit Asians aren't being excluded. You even entertain the possibility that Asians might still dominate TJ admissions and people potentially being mad about that. Your definition of excluded is very odd.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2021 16:22     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

is desegregation a bad thing now?


The previous admissions criteria were race neutral.


the outcome wasn't. Most segregation post 60s is race neutral on it's face- that's how it's allowed to persist for as long as it does


The outcome was race neutral. You just don't like the outcome.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2021 15:20     Subject: New Jay Matthew's op ed on TJ
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

is desegregation a bad thing now?


The previous admissions criteria were race neutral.


the outcome wasn't. Most segregation post 60s is race neutral on it's face- that's how it's allowed to persist for as long as it does