Re: Ranked #1 for CHEATING: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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Another Pile of Bullshit
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Date: February 08, 2019 01:17PM
You are definitely a pile Wrote:
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> What a Pile of Bullshit Wrote:
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> >
> > Bullshit! These parents are doing it right and
> > the proof is in the puddling in terms of so
> many
> > Ivy League educations, so many successful
> doctors,
> > so many successful financial whizzes, so many
> > successful lawyers, so many successful
> scientists
> > . . .
> >
> > Why in the HELL would you ever change anything
> > that might affect all that???
> >
> > So many lazy, worthless, good-for-nothing
> white,
> > black and Hispanic parents, with all their low
> > expectations, their tolerance of failure, their
> > willingness to accept excuses instead of
> demanding
> > results, could learn a lot from these terrific
> > Asian parents - if they only gave enough of a
> fuck
> > to do so. Kids SHOULD Be scared to come home
> with
> > a B! They should work harder and do better.
> What
> > the hell is wrong with us if we complain about
> > that?
> >
> > Anyway, to the poster above, you should
> literally
> > get down on your knees every single night and
> > thank God, or if you're an atheist at least
> > reflect on your good fortune, to have parents
> who
> > push you hard to achieve your best. We need
> MORE
> > parents like that, not fewer.
>
> So many things wrong with this bullshit on so many
> levels that it is hard to even know where to
> begin.
>
> You are assuming there is something special about
> the kids who get in that distinguishes them from
> the kids who don't. Yes there is a record of post
> graduate achievement by those who attend TJ.
> There is a similar record of achievement by the
> top kids in the Fairfax County School System who
> did not get in. For every kid who gets into TJ
> there are at least three or four equally qualified
> kids who didn't, or who chose to follow different
> paths. The post graduate success comes from the
> fact you have a bunch of kids with above average
> intelligence who have good work ethics. It
> doesn't come from having overbearing parents who
> are willing to game the system not to have their
> kids do their best but rather to give their kids
> an advantage over other kids.
>
>
> So why does this matter? If you believe success
> alone justifies everything then to you it might
> not matter. If you believe in the quaint notion
> success achieved by following the rules then it
> matters a great deal. Schools exist not just to
> impart knowledge. They also exist to teach
> values. What this is teaching kids is that lying,
> cheating and stealing are OK, so long as it helps
> you get ahead.
>
> Beyond that you have the question of whether
> allowing the current system to continue advances
> TJs mission. TJ doesn't exist by right, and the
> resources it sucks up has adverse effects. It
> exists because the citizens and taxpayers of the
> County believe TJs mission justifies its
> existence. That mission isn't to allow 1600 high
> school students to have a better shot of getting
> into Harvard or UVA than their peers who attended
> their home high schools. If that is all that
> matters there are a number of good private schools
> in the area that will fit the children's needs, so
> why should the County taxpayers foot the bill?
Well, thank you for the Communist perspective on this important issue. We will give it all the due weight it deserves.
Meanwhile, among all that bullshit, THIS amused me the most:
"If that is all that matters there are a number of good private schools in the area that will fit the children's needs, so why should the County taxpayers foot the bill?"
Those kids' parents ARE taxpayers. And if "county taxpayers" weren't paying to educate them at TJ, they would be paying to educate them at Langley, McLean, Marshall, Madison, etc. anyway. So "county taxpayers" would foot the bill anyway.
I mean unless you're advocating (and I KNOW you aren't) abolishing the entire taxpayer funded FCPS - in which case you and I would be in agreement. But I just KNOW you don't favor that. So "county" taxpyaers have to pay for all of these kids' educations anyway, whether it is at TJ or Langley, McLean, Marshall, Madison, etc. So what's the difference?
Also, I am 1000% sure you not only have NO problem with, but are indeed a strong supporter of, "county taxpayers" spending beau-coup extra bucks for the opposite of the TL kids: the slow learners, the poor achievers, the dimwitted, the illegal aliens, the troublemakers, the retarded . . . special ed courses, extra counseling, free meals, ESL classes. So, please . . . get off the "fiscal responsibility" horse: it doesn't fit you.
And logically which makes more sense anyway? Devoting resources to build and grow your best assets, or throwing more money at poorly performing assets who in most cases are not ever going to achieve much anyway?
So much more . . .but no time right now. Except for this.
"If you believe success alone justifies everything then to you it might not matter."
I don't just believe that. I KNOW that.
What, you think failure should matter and get credit so long as that failure was produced by "following the rules?" Are they giving out some sort of participation trophies after high school for failing but "following the rules" where you live? I think that's called "welfare."
We need more success and less failure. Everyone does. Parents and schools that expect, demand, and reward success and punish failure are an excellent thing. Low-expectation-having parents and schools that coddle failure, excuse it, embrace it, and praise the "effort" which produced that failure are a blight on humanity.