No more hard to pass exams to get into Thomas Jefferson High School For Science and Technology. Now low standards will apply that will discriminate against the brightest in Fairfax particularly Asians and Whites who take studies seriously

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-admissions-changes-thomas-jefferson-high-will-welcome-most-diverse-class-in-recent-history-officials-say/ar-AALmFm0

Wash Post get it straight ! Its The FORMER "Prestigious magnet school Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology"

This was the education centerpiece of FCPS for the best and brightest to move our world forward with innovations in the future in fields of science medicine and technology all turned now into a "diverse discrimination farce" by more desperate Democrat pandering to race as they are terrified of losing too much of the black vote with their failed economic policies social welfare and lack of opportunities and good jobs and nationwide for all Americans of every race religion and color

It strongly suggests that only token blacks will be accepted as blacks can't get the grades to enter as it was .

There are brilliant blacks among the best and the brightest who have gone to TJ and now they will be seen a as special set aside lacky's by Democrats pandering now to race in admissions . TJ is now gone as a top school!

We have moved from a system that was based mostly on how well applicants did on one test to a system based on how well students do in middle school generally. How exactly is that the end of academic excellence? The students being admitted to TJHSST are still among the brightest in Fairfax County. Its just that the criteria used to select them has changed. Joe and Maria Averagestudent stand no better chance of getting into TJHSST under the new system than the old. Only the Trump Squad believes that the new system will bring a wave of unqualified students.

Even if progressives hadn't gained control of the School Board the TJHSST admissions system was going to change. There were too many schools where too many top students were not getting offered admissions to TJHSST, and too many of those kids had parents with political clout. Underrepresentation of certain minorities was simply the tool these parents used to compel Fairfax County to abandon the test. In a few years though watch how this same coalition will try to push for restoration of the test because the new system won't work to their advantage sufficiently enough.

TJ is not a place for those that either cannot or do not want to work at the highest levels of high school education. Heck, I don't think it works well for the bottom third of the class prior to any admissions adjustments. Many of those people are there because their parents wanted them to be there. It is much better to really succeed at a base school (and having more fun doing so) than to go through the grind at TJ and ending up in the bottom third of the class. By the way, there is nothing wrong per se about being in the bottom third at TJ - the average SAT's are around 1500 - which will soon decline a bit - but in the end it is all about outcomes. I was a scholarship athlete at a highly ranked D1 school (one of the two in the top 10 rankings that give athletic scholarships). I was no great shakes academically, but had stats on admission in the middle of the entering class. My scholarship athlete roommate, a really great guy and a high school All American, had stats in the bottom 5 percent. He received lots of tutoring (not from me because I was a light study person) but he really struggled getting through school and did not enjoy a minute of it. It was sad to see, His athletic performance really suffered, and he was so bogged down in getting through for what at this school passed for remedial courses (95% percent of the school either took BC calculus their first year or passed out of it - his trig course was a struggle and was taught by a grad student - just another barrier for him). Sure, his story is anecdotal, but it shows that prestige and credentialism often don't work for people. The key is to go where you can get the most of a school, and not for a name.

TJ is a fine school, particularly for those at the top. My kid belonged there, I didn't push her in any way, and she went on to the so-called top of the Ivy League schools, a waste of money in retrospect but like many fathers I didn't want to say no to anything with my daughter.

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> We have moved from a system that was based mostly
> on how well applicants did on one test to a system
> based on how well students do in middle school
> generally. How exactly is that the end of
> academic excellence? The students being admitted
> to TJHSST are still among the brightest in Fairfax
> County. Its just that the criteria used to select
> them has changed. Joe and Maria Averagestudent
> stand no better chance of getting into TJHSST
> under the new system than the old. Only the Trump
> Squad believes that the new system will bring a
> wave of unqualified students.
>
> Even if progressives hadn't gained control of the
> School Board the TJHSST admissions system was
> going to change. There were too many schools
> where too many top students were not getting
> offered admissions to TJHSST, and too many of
> those kids had parents with political clout.
> Underrepresentation of certain minorities was
> simply the tool these parents used to compel
> Fairfax County to abandon the test. In a few
> years though watch how this same coalition will
> try to push for restoration of the test because
> the new system won't work to their advantage
> sufficiently enough.

You think allowing MORE NIGGERS into anything will make IT better?
Go live in Chicago and keep blaming whitey for the fact that most groids can’t read!

Bet some money that... starting with Fall 21, that the esteemed TJHSS&T Will not slide out of top 10 schools nationwide, within 5 years.

Fairfax County had the best schools years ago. Then outsiders ESCAPING NIGGER RUN CITIES, infect this area

>It strongly suggests that only token blacks will be accepted as blacks can't get the grades to enter as it was .

If blacks got such good grades and high test scores before they changed this why did they have to change the standards of admission to "diversify", there should have been plenty of blacks there just like Asians and whites

Obviously enough blacks did not qualify to gain admission to suit Democrats , so now they pander to race as always and the school just dropped down to Justice and Lewis's level which is dismal

TJ has taken the first giant step into mediocrity. Other schools will rise to take their place now that they have embraced virtue signaling over high quality education.

FCPS "excellence" ,they have slipped far down the ladder just in the last 10 years with the illegal invasion and now this , how about a big tax cut Fairfax .

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I thought it was all about getting more white kids in; too many asians.

Well at least their sports teams will improve

Dem Logic = slow down the fastest runners so the slowest runners can catch up.

Welcome to the PG County School System.......

It would be nice for FCPS to follow up on this and let the general public see what happens with theses students.

TJ used to have a standard that if you weren't making the grades (B average) you would be asked to leave.

I'm sure those days are over.

I'm sure the grades will be watered down (like they seem to be everywhere now days) and none of these special snowflakes will be failing their classes.

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> You think allowing MORE NIGGERS into anything will
> make IT better?

Reading your racist rant leads me to wonder why you bothered quoting my post. You obviously had not read it.

A super high tech school to get the most from the best and brightest now watered down to a ordinary FCPS school. FPCS stop the farce and go back to the way it was.
There's no need to waste even more tax money on this joke

THE WAY IT WAS. That would mean having Thomas Jefferson revert to being just another high school. That is what it was back in the golden days of Fairfax County.

The whole country is destined to become a impoverished third world morass under total Dem control as the best and brightest are pushed aside in favor of racial diversity, if any students can not get the grades and test scores to be in the high tech school they don't need to be going there in a country where the constitution says we are all equal, that constitution has been bastardized by these stupid (D) progs running the schools to devalue the educations of those deserving of the best we can give to them in educations. If a child of an illegal is so brilliant by grades and tests they can qualify they too should be allowed into TJ but not because of their race or immigration statues.

Black people are the way they are because white people made them this way.

Blacks are clannish they do things because it's a black thing, the problem is not enough blacks think for themselves the ones that do don't vote for the Democrat they voted for Trump, thankfully their numbers are slowly growing , hence we see desperation by Democrats to keep the rest on their hopeless plantation where for more then 6 decades they have been trapped in poverty . Democrats "resolve" is to pander to their race with school name changes , attacks upon old statues no one cared about trying to hide their racist past and now diluting the once elite high tech school where any one qualified to attend could , sorry if you did not have the test scores or grades and could not make it, that's the way reality in life is and always been.

I was surprised TJ lasted as long as it did. With the standards being lowered might as well close the school and send them to the local high school.

I Love it! Fairfax thought they were leading the way with Diversity hugging, then it turns and bites them on the ass!!!
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>sorry if you did not have the test scores or grades and could not make it, that's the way reality in life is and always been.

You gave it your best you studied as hard as you could and did not make it into TJ , you were not alone the majority of people of all races don't gain admission as some people are more intelligent then others , TJ was not designed to be a school for the above average, it was intended to be a school to challenge the brightest students in Fairfax to provide the future high achievers in the fields of science and technology

Now the question must be answered , why in a nation where all are free and equal under our constitution should you be admitted because you are a person of color when others tested higher and had better grades.

You should not be admitted based on race, but Democrats must pander to your race and with that pandering lowering the standards of admission to TJ they have made a mockery of higher education in Fairfax County, forget the best and brightest from now on Fairfax has decided so the new students will all be tokens in their racial pandering scheme for votes

Nail meet hammer.
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Should somebody tell them that in TJ’s first twelve years or so as a magnet school, at a time when Fairfax County leaned Republican, Fairfax County schools were still considered top notch, and TJ established its reputation at the top school in the area and the goal of overachieving students in the County, Thomas Jefferson used an admission system that compared applicants to applicants of similar backgrounds? During this period blacks and hispanics combined constituted almost 10% of the school population, Asians were northward of 20%, and that there was broad geographic diversity in the student population as well.

The same fairness arguments that were used by parents around 2000-2003 to rewrite the admissions rules so that their advantaged students would have a leg up on the competition from top students in other parts of the county are now being used to justify rewriting admissions rules to give top students from other parts of the county a leg up over the two groups that have dominated TJ classes the past 15 years.

>Fairfax County schools were still considered top notch,

Not anymore no longer do Republicans run Fairfax County , FCPS has gone down considerably in status with Democrats in control. TJ has just slid from being a top school with this new wave of pandering to race , don't stop with facts embellish with Democrat propaganda .

The truth hurts you doesn't it

>Now the question must be answered , why in a nation where all are free and equal under our constitution should you be admitted because you are a person of color when others tested higher and had better grades.

>You should not be admitted based on race, but Democrats must pander to your race and with that pandering lowering the standards of admission to TJ they have made a mockery of higher education in Fairfax County, forget the best and brightest from now on Fairfax has decided so the new students will all be tokens in their racial pandering scheme for votes

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> >Now the question must be answered , why in a
> nation where all are free and equal under our
> constitution should you be admitted because you
> are a person of color when others tested higher
> and had better grades.

Let's run with that for a moment.

Why are there only seven middle schools in Fairfax County that offer Algebra 2? Why are more than half of Fairfax County students not permitted to take Algebra 1 before the eighth grade? Why was it only recently that Fairfax County rolled back the by right point where students could sign up for Algebra 1 from 9th grade to 8th grade? Do you think this might help explain why in recent years five middle schools accounted for roughly 70% of the students admitted to TJ while more than half of Fairfax County middle schools sent fewer than 10 kids a year?

As for grades and tests, TJ hasn't limited itself to admissions based solely on grades and test scores for some time. Scrapping the original TJ admissions criteria only got the top five schools over 50%. With TJ admissions tests ending up where they shouldn't and rising Asian admissions, too many white upper middle class families whose kids went to favored schools were not getting accepted. So additional factors were thrown in. The County used to post stripped down information on TJ applicants. If you reviewed it you'd see kids with similar scores and GPAs where one got admitted and one was rejected outright. There were even instances where students with better GPAs were rejected while kids with lower GPAs got in with similar test scores.

> >You should not be admitted based on race, but Democrats

Again it was a Republican leaning County that decided that diversity should be a goal in TJ admissions, and those rules were scrapped less than 20 years ago. Was it pandering then? Or was it an understanding that an institution funded by the County at large should provide educational benefits to a wide portion of Fairfax rather than a favored few? Also race is not officially a deciding factor now, just as being an Asian kid who went through the right prep programs was not officially a deciding factor under the replaced system. If the results are to be believed, it didn't take a minority setaside to significantly increase the black and Hispanic population at TJ. It only took stripping away some of the privileged position students from a few favored schools enjoyed and expanding the TJ population slightly.

It has not been 15+ years of merit based admission at TJ. It was been 15+ years of people trying to make sure their kids had the best chances of getting in, even if those kids were not the County's best and brightest.

The truth doesn't hurt when its on your side.

Is what Democrats are doing with TJ , you cant spin that with lies

>Again it was a Republican leaning County that decided that diversity should be a goal in TJ admissions, and those rules were scrapped less than 20 years ago.

Your WOKE young people will believe that crap but even 20 years ago this county was solidly in Democrat control with the GOP's influence slipping fast , but they were more reasonable Democrats back then then what they are today, completely insanely WOKE out of all control desperate to keep what black vote they have

TJ should be open to only those who test the highest and have the best grades in the tech subjects TJ teaches , no matter the race. Its the Democrats who must pander injecting race into admissions to favor minorities for VOTES

Your peddling bullshit about Republicans (D) hack , your whole posts are nothing but lies

>Again it was a Republican leaning County that decided that diversity should be a goal in TJ admissions

BS this is far before TJ became the magnet high tech school who do you think you can lie to , YES the WOKE (D) Stupid that's all

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/11/16/fairfax-votes-for-the-status-quo/109ce906-8ee6-4116-8122-9305531ac4af/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/11/03/fairfax-democrats-keep-control-of-board/d9d0a816-580d-42c3-9974-d45089002004/

Its been a Democrat show long after that in Fairfax County Va.

FAIRFAX VOTES FOR THE STATUS QUO
By Eric LiptonNovember 16, 1995
He got into the race late. He tried to knock off an incumbent in a county where there was little anti-incumbent fervor. And the complicated anti-tax message he was trying to sell to voters left him vulnerable to attack.

Those are some of the reasons, according to Fairfax County political activists, that Republican Gary L. Jones last week was unable to oust incumbent Democrat Katherine K. Hanley as chairman of the County Board of Supervisors.

"There was just nothing that motivated people," said Supervisor Michael R. Frey (R-Sully), who was reelected. "People just kind of said: We are doing all right. Let's stick with what we got.' "

Political observers said that as the challenger, Jones had to set the agenda for the campaign in order to win.

Hanley had taken over the county's top job in February, after winning a special election to replace Thomas M. Davis III, the former Republican board chairman who is now in Congress.

Jones, the outgoing School Board chairman, raised more money than Hanley, and he had the backing of the county's business community, as well as an endorsement from Davis.

But Jones faced an uphill battle from the start, Republicans and Democrats said. Hanley had made few mistakes during her eight months in office and was able to take at least some of the credit for the accomplishments of the three years when Davis was in charge. Jones also was making his first run for public office; Hanley had been a candidate four times before.

Jones ended up with 88,756 votes; Hanley collected 101,317, or 53 percent.

"People knew she was chairman, and she really had not done anything positive or negative since she was elected," county GOP Chairman Patrick Mullins said. "People were inclined to let the lady have a four-year shot at it."

Some Republicans leaders also said privately that Jones, who entered the race in June after a long search by the GOP for someone to challenge Hanley, did not go after her aggressively enough. They say he should have done more to emphasize the GOP stance that Hanley is unprepared to deal with the severe budget crunch the county faces.

"We did not set the stage well enough to explain why voters should have replaced her," said one party activist. "When you have two nice people talking about nice things, the incumbent will come out on top."

Supervisor Elaine N. McConnell (R-Springfield) said the problem wasn't Jones, it was a liberal bias in the media that played down the differences between the two candidates and gave voters the mistaken impression that Jones and Hanley were virtually the same.

In the final weeks of the campaign, Republicans gave Jones credit for better defining himself, after he stepped up his emphasis on his plan to eliminate the county's business, professional and occupational licensing tax and talked less about issues on which he and Hanley agreed, such as the need to build more roads and increase school spending.

Jones told voters that the county should phase out the business tax and rely on economic growth to make up for the estimated $60 million in revenue the tax brings the county each year. But that plan, which echoed the economic theories of the Reagan administration, was a hard sell in Fairfax, Republicans and Democrats said, because the county already faces a $146 million deficit next year, and Jones had told voters he wanted to increase school spending. Hanley dubbed the idea "voodoo economics."

"It was a mistake for him to associate himself with Ronald Reagan," said county Democratic Party Chairman Mark D. Sickles. "People may have liked Reagan personally, but they generally believe that the tax cuts exacerbated the deficit problem. And the argument here in Fairfax that a tax cut would raise more revenue, most people found that nonsensible."

One Republican, who asked not to be identified, said he agreed with Sickles: "Few people understand Reaganomics. It just compounded his problems and confused people."

Jones was out of the state this week and could not be reached for comment. But after the results came in election night, he said he was proud of the way he had campaigned.

"I have run the campaign with the kind of personality I have," Jones said. "I don't think it is necessary to get down and dirty."

Hanley said she agreed with other political observers who suggested that voters were happy with the status quo.

"The citizens of Fairfax County chose to have me continue the moderate, consensus-building policies I am following," she said this week.

Hanley has ended up with a county board with six Democrats and four Republicans, compared with the current five-five split. That Democratic majority was a result of the 327-vote victory of Democrat Penelope A. Gross over Republican William B. Bailey in the Mason District, the only seat on the board to switch party hands this year. CAPTION: Katherine K. Hanley will lead a Democratic-majority county board. CAPTION: Gary L. Jones wanted to eliminate the county's business licensing tax.

25 years ago two of the three people who represented Northern Virginia in the House of Representatives were Republicans. In 1996 Bob Dole won Fairfax County. Bush won it in 2000, and his father had won it in 1992. The Chair of the BOS was a Democrat, but she got the seat when Republican Tom Davis went to the House, and she won here election by using Tom Davis's platform while her Republican opponent skewed further conservative. In other words the status quo that Fairfax voted for was Davis's status quo, not a liberal Democratic one.

The original Thomas Jefferson graduated its last class in 1987. From 1985 to 1987 it shared the same campus as the current Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/05/14/jefferson-highs-1987-88-freshman-class/edcf2a95-17ff-4b00-9e4c-62e70838ecc9/ Once again just because you say it does not mean it is true.

The state did not run Fairfax stupid , your reaching for a way out, you have nothing

You are being a moron. How Fairfax residents vote in state and Federal elections is an indication of how Fairfax residents lean. Federal elections are actually a better way to gauge how Fairfax residents lean because the turnout in Federal elections tends to be higher. And when Democrats are able to win a slight majority on the Board by running on the same platform as the Republicans had the previous election it is hardly a rejection of Republicans. It was after the 2000 Presidential election that Fairfax moved into the Democratic camp and the Fairfax Democratic party started to move to the left.

Read the newspaper stories links the BOS of Fairfax county has been Democrat controlled since 1995 they control the agenda in Fairfax as they provide the budget funds , you can not spin facts to suit your lying narrative to give Democrats the boost a typical Democrat propaganda hack

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62 % Asian 22% white the rest mere samples of the population and now will be tokens with your new lower requirements to pander to race

WE know who has the intelligence the discipline the morals to succeed to gain admission Asians AND SOME WHITES TOO , there's too many criminal acts with drugs in the other groups including whites caused by your open borders and soft on drug crime policies for votes from minorities , deal with it Democrats , your legal weed will ruin even more young brains and morals , you ruin everything you touch with your liberalism now leftist wokeism and you lie about everything like saying you did not start with the police defunding LIARS and HYPOCRITES OF RUIN You want the whole country to be impoverished and drugged to keep you in power forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_for_Science_and_Technology
"The school is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools system of Fairfax County, Virginia. Students from Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and from the City of Falls Church are also eligible for admission.[9]

In 2015 and 2016, the ratio of acceptances to applications was 17% and 17.9%, respectively.[10] The ethnic demographics of the students admitted in the graduating class of 2022 was 65.2% Asian/Asian American, 22.9% Caucasian/white American, 5.1% other (including people of Native American, Pacific Islander, and multiple racial backgrounds), 4.7% Hispanic or Latino American, and 2.1% African American or Black.[11] Hispanic and Black students make up less than seven percent of student body, while the same groups constitute about thirty percent of the student population in the area.[12]

In 2012, a civil rights complaint against the school was filed with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights by Coalition of the Silence, an advocacy group led by former county School Board member Tina Hone, and the Fairfax chapter of the NAACP.[13][14] In response, the Office of Civil Rights, in September 2012, opened an investigation.[15][16]"

Throw these stupid Democrats out of office this year Virginia to repave the road to ruin with a new road to reason discipline and morality again in Virginia and later the USA .

There's no morality at all with anyone who supports abortion the killing of the innocent child in the womb and now out of it , that goes to all children of all races as you call those who don't support abortion "RACIST " that's you all the way

OK team we only have 2.1 % blacks at TJ lets find some way to pander to race for votes

What political party does that white racist support in the racist meme

Lets see, who started the KKK ?? Wrote Jim Crow laws and black codes, created segregation , stood in front of schools to keep blacks out . That's probably a 99% chance the right answer

oh my god!

Democrats power comes from only 5% of the voters many of whom who are black and are leaving the Democrat party for the Republican party , thus Democrats in the last 6 years have dramatically increased their racist pandering to those of the black race to keep blacks voting Democrat so they don't become the minority party in the USA at this time period in our history

The story of TJ high with Fairfax County changes to favor blacks in admissions by displacing others who scored higher in tests is part of the story of the racial pandering Democrats have been engaged in for votes

Democrat President Biden now (2023) has appointed blacks to 62 % of his federal judge appointments

If that is not desperate Democrat racial pandering to race , just like Biden's groveling to race taking the knee , as well as his telling the American people he would only appoint a female black woman to the US Supreme court among other racial pandering picks

Only when Democrats stop using numbers gender colors and race to pander to race or gender and divide our people for votes and accept we are all equals as humans not colors will racism and discrimination ever leave this country

We are all equal, thus act as we are all equal in all that we do

The situation is just terrible, I did not think that this could happen in high school. I don't understand why the Democrats are going there! Who would have thought 100 years ago that this would happen. Educational institutions are not the same anymore, even I found everything about asa, used https://edubirdie.com/citation/asa/ for this. Besides, no one figured me out and stopped me. This already says something. So this is not the only problem, we have just got used to the rest. But our nation will eventually become completely uneducated.