Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

ONE WEEK!

Long before this admissions change, the first week or two for TJ freshmen was all about ice breakers and orientation. Not sure why that PP thinks conclusions can be drawn already (except she has an agenda to push).

No conclusions can be drawn already, and the ones that are there to be drawn will be extremely difficult to measure. Making things worse is the fact that families insist on cornering the market on any type of phrasing that can be used to signify an improvement in the environment as "racist" or "dog-whistles" when the problems that have existed at TJ long predate the Asian majority.

For some reason, the status quo crowd seems to want to make all of the problems at TJ about Asians instead of about a flawed admissions process that hadn't REALLY changed that much in 30 years and was well behind the curve with respect to elite educational institutions - as well as a principal who actively didn't do anything to deal with the problems that had arisen at his school that he remade in his own image.

It's a cute strategy that you can probably leverage for the Oppression Olympics, but it's disingenuous and doesn't do much for your public perception.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

ONE WEEK!

Long before this admissions change, the first week or two for TJ freshmen was all about ice breakers and orientation. Not sure why that PP thinks conclusions can be drawn already (except she has an agenda to push).

There is nothing that will convince PP that their conclusions are wrong. Anyone with a bias will frame the data to fit their narrative and ignore contrary evidence.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

ONE WEEK!

Long before this admissions change, the first week or two for TJ freshmen was all about ice breakers and orientation. Not sure why that PP thinks conclusions can be drawn already (except she has an agenda to push).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coalition for TJ filed a new Motion for Preliminary Injunction yesterday to prevent FCPS from using the same process for class of 2026 that they used for 2025. Scheduled to be argued before applications are due.

Unless they are making an actual suggestion as to how the process should run, the only effect this will have is to delay the process further. The basics of the process are almost certainly going to remain the same - there will be geographic distribution and there will not be an exam - unless there is a court order that they change or remove those elements.

The time to litigate this will be in the next School Board elections in November of 2023, and the earliest impact will be for the incoming class of 2029. A newly elected school board taking office in early 2024 won't have an impact on the process to select the class of 2028 without creating an even worse time problem than the one that the incessant failed lawsuits created for the class of 2025.

They are suggesting applications be decided on merit. No chance that will fly.

Snark aside, there would need to be a lot more specificity here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coalition for TJ filed a new Motion for Preliminary Injunction yesterday to prevent FCPS from using the same process for class of 2026 that they used for 2025. Scheduled to be argued before applications are due.

Unless they are making an actual suggestion as to how the process should run, the only effect this will have is to delay the process further. The basics of the process are almost certainly going to remain the same - there will be geographic distribution and there will not be an exam - unless there is a court order that they change or remove those elements.

The time to litigate this will be in the next School Board elections in November of 2023, and the earliest impact will be for the incoming class of 2029. A newly elected school board taking office in early 2024 won't have an impact on the process to select the class of 2028 without creating an even worse time problem than the one that the incessant failed lawsuits created for the class of 2025.

They are suggesting applications be decided on merit. No chance that will fly.

Totally losing argument

I thought the old system decided applications based on who bought the answers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

Certain groups who didn’t get their people in are going to hate. Let me hate from the sidelines while yours are enjoying TJ.

Let them hate, I meant.

You were right the first time hater

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

I can sense some panic here

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

Certain groups who didn’t get their people in are going to hate. Let me hate from the sidelines while yours are enjoying TJ.

Let them hate, I meant.

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

Certain groups who didn’t get their people in are going to hate. Let me hate from the sidelines while yours are enjoying TJ.

Anonymous wrote:Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

ONE WEEK!

Let’s move on! Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025. All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coalition for TJ filed a new Motion for Preliminary Injunction yesterday to prevent FCPS from using the same process for class of 2026 that they used for 2025. Scheduled to be argued before applications are due.

Unless they are making an actual suggestion as to how the process should run, the only effect this will have is to delay the process further. The basics of the process are almost certainly going to remain the same - there will be geographic distribution and there will not be an exam - unless there is a court order that they change or remove those elements.

The time to litigate this will be in the next School Board elections in November of 2023, and the earliest impact will be for the incoming class of 2029. A newly elected school board taking office in early 2024 won't have an impact on the process to select the class of 2028 without creating an even worse time problem than the one that the incessant failed lawsuits created for the class of 2025.

They are suggesting applications be decided on merit. No chance that will fly.

Totally losing argument

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Richmond. I was taught the Civil War was about "states rights" and honestly, the language on the VA history SOL given in elementary school even now is still a little squishy. We also watched "Gone With the Wind" in middle school as a schoolwide activity in the auditorium. This was late 70s/early 80s. My school was integrated - about 50% white/50% black. I was also taught that General Grant was a drunk and bad military leader. Robert E. Lee and his military prowess was borderline worshipped.

My mom grew up in SC and revered Robert E. Lee. She 100% would say the Civil War was about "states rights" (or would call it "the war of northern aggression"). She was also an ES teacher for decades. I can only imagine what she taught her students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coalition for TJ filed a new Motion for Preliminary Injunction yesterday to prevent FCPS from using the same process for class of 2026 that they used for 2025. Scheduled to be argued before applications are due.

Unless they are making an actual suggestion as to how the process should run, the only effect this will have is to delay the process further. The basics of the process are almost certainly going to remain the same - there will be geographic distribution and there will not be an exam - unless there is a court order that they change or remove those elements.

The time to litigate this will be in the next School Board elections in November of 2023, and the earliest impact will be for the incoming class of 2029. A newly elected school board taking office in early 2024 won't have an impact on the process to select the class of 2028 without creating an even worse time problem than the one that the incessant failed lawsuits created for the class of 2025.

They are suggesting applications be decided on merit. No chance that will fly.

Anonymous wrote:Coalition for TJ filed a new Motion for Preliminary Injunction yesterday to prevent FCPS from using the same process for class of 2026 that they used for 2025. Scheduled to be argued before applications are due.

Unless they are making an actual suggestion as to how the process should run, the only effect this will have is to delay the process further. The basics of the process are almost certainly going to remain the same - there will be geographic distribution and there will not be an exam - unless there is a court order that they change or remove those elements.

The time to litigate this will be in the next School Board elections in November of 2023, and the earliest impact will be for the incoming class of 2029. A newly elected school board taking office in early 2024 won't have an impact on the process to select the class of 2028 without creating an even worse time problem than the one that the incessant failed lawsuits created for the class of 2025.