Anonymous wrote:I guess we can kiss TJ's ranking good-bye with these new criteria.

TJ won't have the same resources when it isn't ranked top 10.

Anonymous wrote:Many families in the Northern Virginia area of all races have felt the privilege for years of having access to STEM clubs and camps through their middle schools, having community-based knowledge of expensive TJ test prep courses, having the resources to be able to pay for those things, and having hundreds of students at the school who they could look up to and belonged to their communities.

Many students of all races have felt the privilege of being born into families who prioritized the optimization of that process from an extremely early age.

I am one of those students, and I didn't even realize it until I was in my mid-20s.

It is undeniably a privilege for students to have parents who have the time, energy, awareness, and resources to commit to the pursuit of TJ as an educational outcome, when what it really is is an educational opportunity. I had that privilege, and that's why I am a TJ graduate today.

"So what should we do? Just stop parenting?" NO! I should hope that the motivation for your parenting practices extends beyond just trying to get your kid into TJ, or to Harvard, or to be a doctor, or to make a ton of money to support you in your old age.

The privilege that your child receives from your excellent parenting will still grant them a great shot at an outstanding and meaningful life.

Anonymous wrote:For those that are outraged by this secretive initiative, please sign this petition..

https://www.change.org/p/ralph-s-northam-keep-merit-based-admissions-at-tjhsst?

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Anonymous wrote:Scott Surovell is such a crybaby. Why doesn’t he ask his good buddy Karen Corbett Sanders how wasting $35-40 million of taxpayer money on a huge expansion at West Potomac to keep kids from having to attend Mount Vernon HS is going to help MVHS.

https://twitter.com/ssurovell/status/1304752737238822912?s=21

I don’t even understand his point. What does TJ admissions have to do with NMSF at the named schools? Why isn’t he comparing numbers to other FCPS high schools?

It's not convenient to the point he's trying to make. Another dumbass.

His entire shtick is complaining his district, which includes southeastern Fairfax, never gets enough money and attention, and that's why the test scores are low, there aren't NMSFs from the schools in his district, and few kids from his area go to TJHSST.

The only solution is to give his district more money. And then even more money.

He overlooks the fact that FCPS wastes money on construction projects in his district so Corbett Sanders' friends won't have to go to Mount Vernon. It's such an obvious waste of money that Jeff McKay was tempted to get the BOS to hold up the FCPS budget last year.

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His entire shtick is complaining his district, which includes southeastern Fairfax, never gets enough money and attention, and that's why the test scores are low, there aren't NMSFs from the schools in his district, and few kids from his area go to TJHSST.

The only solution is to give his district more money. And then even more money.

He overlooks the fact that FCPS wastes money on construction projects in his district so Corbett Sanders' friends won't have to go to Mount Vernon. It's such an obvious waste of money that Jeff McKay was tempted to get the BOS to hold up the FCPS budget last year.

Not sure if the construction money is fungible. Pretty sure we vote on bonds for construction.

However, I agree with the principle of this post. I taught school in the projects for a few years. Stunning how much money is distributed but never gets to the classroom. It is money "better spent" that is needed. Structure, goals, etc. and less emphasis on social programs are needed. Don't get me wrong, no kids should go hungry or without shoes, but setting up a "feel good" program does not do the trick. It just makes the people appropriating the money feel like they are doing something to help. And, the money gets peeled off at every level of bureaucracy before it ever reaches the kids.

Well said.

There are lots of effective programs that do not require a lot of money. But, FCPS has never met an expensive program that it does not love.

His entire shtick is complaining his district, which includes southeastern Fairfax, never gets enough money and attention, and that's why the test scores are low, there aren't NMSFs from the schools in his district, and few kids from his area go to TJHSST.

The only solution is to give his district more money. And then even more money.

He overlooks the fact that FCPS wastes money on construction projects in his district so Corbett Sanders' friends won't have to go to Mount Vernon. It's such an obvious waste of money that Jeff McKay was tempted to get the BOS to hold up the FCPS budget last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Scott Surovell is such a crybaby. Why doesn’t he ask his good buddy Karen Corbett Sanders how wasting $35-40 million of taxpayer money on a huge expansion at West Potomac to keep kids from having to attend Mount Vernon HS is going to help MVHS.

https://twitter.com/ssurovell/status/1304752737238822912?s=21

I don’t even understand his point. What does TJ admissions have to do with NMSF at the named schools? Why isn’t he comparing numbers to other FCPS high schools?

It's not convenient to the point he's trying to make. Another dumbass.

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Anonymous wrote:Scott Surovell is such a crybaby. Why doesn’t he ask his good buddy Karen Corbett Sanders how wasting $35-40 million of taxpayer money on a huge expansion at West Potomac to keep kids from having to attend Mount Vernon HS is going to help MVHS.

https://twitter.com/ssurovell/status/1304752737238822912?s=21

I don’t even understand his point. What does TJ admissions have to do with NMSF at the named schools? Why isn’t he comparing numbers to other FCPS high schools?