I’m not sure about that. There are some very good private schools andover/exeter come to mind.
No doubt tjhsst is very special.
This is my biggest concern.
The median GPA of a tjhsst admit was 4.0
Tjhsst is a high school drawing 450 freshman from tens of thousands of 8th graders.
The push is pretty partisan.
It is transforming tjhsst into something that does not resemble tjhsst as it is today.
When it includes 90% of applicants, it’s really a stretch to say eliminating the bottom 10% of the applicant pool is merit based. That’s kind of a weak argument.
And frankly if you are much below a B average in high school without any extenuating circumstance (like the ones listed), vocational school is probably worth looking into. Academics might not be your strong suit.
My own view is better summarized as “there’s no way to actually rank high schools so finely that #1 vs. #2 or #108 vs #112 has any real meaning, and it’s often an apples and oranges situation since there are so many types of schools attempting to serve so many different types of students.” However, it’s pretty clear that according to those doing the rankings, TJ often occupies the top spot, and I would say it’s all the more impressive that they do so while drawing from just a few counties in Virginia and maintaining that level for 1800 students, as opposed to the top private schools which are generally smaller and recruit from the entire country/world.
The primary for the Democratic slot in the 2021 Virginia governor’s race is shaping up to be a proxy fight between the centrist Democrats who have made great electoral hay on being reasonable, pro-business, and pro-education, and the progressives who think the election will be conducted among Brooklyn podcasters and critical race theory professors with Twitter accounts.
To be fair, those are counties with among the highest incomes and highest level of education among parents in the country. There are very few places that have such large populations of affluent well educated parents. Less than 3% on free/reduced lunch in a county that is over 30% free/reduced lunch. I would not be opposed to some advantage for lower income kids. But this race centered effort to turn a school that is predominantly asian into a school that is more representative of a largely white suburb at the insistence of woke progressives makes me think they simply don’t give a shit what happens to asians as long as they can get an incremental increase in the number of blacks/hispanics. And it doesn’t really bother them very much that the primary effect of their policy is going to be to give a bunch of seats to white kids that would otherwise have gone to asian kids.
I mean we saw this exact attitude here in this thread.
I read an opinion the other day that is relevant here: if when they had started academic testing, it put black kids ahead of white kids, the schools would quickly have decided that other qualities were more important than academics and found a different way of measuring merit. (Perhaps by looking at extracurriculars and other signs of ‘well roundedness’?) Plausible, isn’t it?
And now for some reason, academic testing is no longer so popular with government and educators…
The whole impetus for objective test-based admissions was to end the Jewish quota at Ivy League schools. The “holistic admissions” practices of the time were just being used to direct racial outcomes.
Now we’re at the same place with the Asian quota and extending it to the high school level.
Remember, we’re operating under Critical Race Theory here. Nothing exists except for the purpose of harming blacks. Asians have no agency or legitimate ends in themselves, they are only a club that whites or blacks use to pound the other.
As Asians in academia do report and you missed, the right does care all right, just as long as Asians can be used by them in efforts to negate any clear disadvantage blacks and Hispanics have when trying to go to elite schools. And as pointed before, it is not just Asians the ones that notice the discrimination.
“Discriminatory impact” i.e. the signal phrase for “we couldn’t find discriminatory behavior but we already decided at the outset that the investigation would find discrimination so let’s cook the books.” Can also be translated as “they didn’t use quotas” - if the black population in the magnet program doesn’t equal the black population of the county then that is ipso facto evidence of “discriminatory impact.” Instead of fixing the problems that lead to black students performing worse on average on measures of academic performance, get rid of the measures and stop offering anything to academic high-performers, then proclaim that you’ve fixed the problem. Typical back-to-the-70s progressive reasoning that will lead us to nowhere but 1970s-level educational outcomes and 1970s-style racial strife, of course blindly supported by all the usual suspects.
Nope, as I looked to the precious posts and cites from academics and authorities; like your postings about the Attorney General using CRT, are based on just say-so’s, not evidence.
Do you know what discriminatory impact means? You’re kind of punking yourself. And a finding of discriminatory impact in this case is simply a finding of facial disparity.
The asians that are on your side don’t represent asians. In fact they actively support policies that impose appears against Asians. I thought we had already addressed your token asians that acted as the asian face of the woke left. These asians get troted out by the stone left whenever they want to feel better about discriminating against Asians by pretend that asians are on board with the discrimination. As the Asian vote on prop 16 shows, the overwhelming Mallory of asians are not at all cool with being discriminated against.
We already established that the use of woke in this context is to discriminate against the Asians that are more informed or involved in the issue. You are still going for the fallacy of the appeal to popularity, and just among Asians. What it is clear is that your arguments then have to go elsewhere so as to ignore that Blacks and Hispanics are still being discriminated. Anything so as to not to deal with what was found about the Magnet school from the OP.
We established that is your opinion. Your opinion is about as valid as anyone elses.
The opinions of the folks you are citing are no more and no less authoritative than yours. Citing to someone else’s opinion is makeweight argument, it is effectively an appeal to popularity that you accuse me of. I cited the election statisistics because YOU claimed that the token asians that agree with you somehow represent a wider asian sentiment when in fact they favor anti-asian discrimination and quotas. Asians do not in fact favor discrimination against asians even if it makes woke white people feel better about horrible shit white people did to minorities in the past.
The fact that a few token asians agree with discriminating against asians doesn’t make it any less discriminatory. Tokenism is something white folks use to feel better about treating minorities poorly. They point to a few members of that minority that agree with them and then sit back like they’ve made some sort of point.
Woke white folks really should shut up about this, they are telling one minority (asians) group to suck it up so they can give a different minority group (blacks and for some reason hispanics) a preference so that the woke white folks can feel less guilty about horrible shit that white people did to black people. At some point int he future, will there be another minority group that will be asked to “suck it up” so that woke white folks can feel less bad about being racist against asians today? Or does the woke white discrimination preference only arise when the discrimination results in poverty and persistent racial disparities?
Woke white folks like that teacher calling the black parent a mutherfucker and a white supremacist for not supporting a racist policy that turns tjhsst from one of the best public high schools in the country into a pretty decent school that might not even be the best school in FCPS.
If woke white folks feel so bad about this problem that white people created, the burden for their solutions should be borne primarily by white people rather than primarily by asian people. For example, if they introduced an income component to the admissions process, it could drastically improve the URM representation at the school but it would displace a lot of affluent white kids, so it never occurs to them.
So are your opinions, things is that even the Alt-right does agree on using that word as an insult, and I cited many others that noticed that (Media Matters did not post what opinion they had about how silly Lou Dobbs was when ranting about the “Woke” NAVY, they just reported on that), just saying that one really does sound less believable when it is clear that they are willing to ignore that the right has co-opted that word into an insult that is ridiculous as it is applied to not only items in education. Leading one to conclude that no, it is not the left the one at fault for the right turning an adequate word into an insult that is really dumb in reality.
Another female led film underperforming, another relentless barrage of white men on social media decrying “woke” cinema. “Get woke, go broke,” they say. Good lord, I can’t believe I have to say this, but what a stupid f**king statement. For one thing, the use of the word “woke” should be reserved for twelve year olds, not fat white men with neckbeards living in basements (although they seem to have the same mental capacity). For another, there are plenty of reasons that certain female-led films have flopped at the box office, and their progressive themes are certainly not among them.
I think destroying educational excellence in favor of a racial quota system is bad irrespective of what kind of superhero movies any person does or does not like. Just my opinion.
I was thinking about this on my walk. Seems to me the right believe in internal locus of control, so if you succeed it was all down to your own hard work and talent and you should be rewarded, and if you fail it’s your own fault so no need for welfare etc. While the left believe in external locus of control, so if someone succeeds it must be because they have opportunities others lack, and if they fail it must be due to discrimination or some other form of unfairness. Successful people should pay a lot of tax to give back for all the help they presumably had, and poor people should be supported because it’s not their fault. In that worldview, Asians succeeding in education must mean they have some kind of unfair advantage, even though no one can point to one. This also explains why Hispanics get a preference; they are underrepresented and it must be because of something external like discrimination, so society should help them.
So yes, the woke white discrimination preferences only arise when the discrimination results in poverty and persistent racial disparities.