You can’t fake mathematics you can’t fake engineering and you can’t fake physics and you can’t fake chemistry and you can’t fake chemical engineering and the list goes on
so are you academicians can try to brainwash the idiot liberal arts majors but I said you’re near his aren’t buying any of your crap and there’s no room for any of your crap in our stuff
So much for the nations best High School.
Geaux Ben Franklin.
Straight from “nation’s best high school” to its worst in one fell swoop?
Comrade Blackface is more toxic than even his worst critics thought.
Well there goes my white privilege. (Sarc).
Goodbye Virginia!
Just what a stem school needs is to BLM its selection process.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology needs to change its admissions policy, according to Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent Scott Brabrand. In a proposal he submitted to the county school board on Tuesday, Brabrand shared a vision for a transformed admissions process that he hopes will increase diversity at the competitive high school. The new system would eliminate the admissions test and $100 application fee and introduce a “merit lottery” process.
This proposal comes after a recent outcry from alumni about the demographic breakdown of students in the incoming freshman class of 2024. Fewer than ten Black students were offered admission, a number so low that it wasn’t included in the FCPS news release reporting class statistics. Like many years before, the majority admitted this year are Asian students, who make up 73 percent of the incoming class. But unlike in years past, TJ alums and students spoke out after this announcement to share their painful experiences with racism and demand that the school overhaul its skewed policy.
TJ’s admissions debate goes back decades. Since its founding in 1985, the student population has remained mostly white and Asian students. Although there have been many efforts to increase diversity in the admissions process, those have largely failed to make significant or lasting change. In 2012, the Fairfax chapter of the NAACP was among the groups that filed a complaint alleging that TJ was shutting out Black and Latinx students.
The elite want to dumb down Americans to turn us into helpless serfs in a dystopian neo-feudal system.
“merit lottery” another name for quotas.
Isn't that what an admissions test is for? Merit?
a magnet school rated as the best in the nation
Not anymore.
Liberals ruin everything they touch.
Does critical race theory include the school changing it’s slaveholder namesake?
Sad point to this is the truly racist ideology of the left where they truly believe that black people are not smart enough to get into these schools, so they have to remove the bar for entry.
Elections have consequences. Elect racist, identity politics democrats and you can kiss merit based standards goodbye, and not just in the schools.
If I lived in Fairfax, I would suggest to the board that it leave TJ alone; don't tamper with success. But if the board feels that the current system underserves some mascot minorities, solve the problem by creating a second academically selective magnet with a different admissions screen. Run the two side by side. Let each strive for excellence. If one clearly outperforms the other, draw the appropriate conclusion.
The real objection to this, of course, is that democrats have given up on raising black and hispanic academic achievement. The left's strategy for closing measured gaps in academic achievement is to sabotage centers of excellence that don't hit quota targets. The left is trying to camouflage a problem, not solve it.
They don’t have stupid ideologies & rules like this in China. Guess who wins?
To increase the number of black students admitted to a magnet school, which is easier?
Address academic performance by black students in the lower grades to increase their chances of achieving the merits required to enter a magnet high school?
Lower the standards of admission to the magnet school?
Duh.
LOL, the ‘rats are always tacitly admitting that minorities are’t smart.
There goes my GD entrance to it. I can see now that I will have to fork over bucks to put her in a high achieving private school.
will they be administering DNA tests to determine race?
The “Thomas Jefferson High School” will never achieve Maximum Wokeness with that decrepit name. They need to change it to the “George Floyd High School.”
Virginia: VIRGINIA: **Once upon a time** the Nation’s Best High School (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) To Embrace Critical Race Theory, Scrap Admissions Tests
Isn’t this the school district that is currently deciding whether or not to pay a ransom for its own files because they had a lazy IT department? Maybe scrapping the tests is an accidental security and privacy measure.