Talk:Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: potential copyright fixed -- copyright phrases removed  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.3.43.160 (talk) 19:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  potential copyright fixed 

message: It appears that only one section of text about the Mentorship program was plagiarized from the official FCPS school profile -- not the entire article. Can this section on the page not just be removed and rewritten, according to Wikipedia's content policy, instead of hijacking the entire page or showing this message stating that the entire article might need to be deleted? 
Jw12321 (talk) 00:09, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright issue 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: At least one major contributor to this article appears to have a close personal or professional connection to the topic, and thus to have a conflict of interest. Conflict-of-interest editors are strongly discouraged from editing the article directly, but are always welcome to propose changes on the talk page (i.e., here). You can attract the attention of other editors by putting  (exactly so, with the curly parentheses) at the beginning of your request, or by clicking the link on the lowest yellow notice above. Requests that are not supported by independent reliable sources are unlikely to be accepted. 
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replies: text: What is the basis for this accusation?  Ketone16 (talk) 01:58, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of interest 

message: A while ago,  wrote that "proposed large improvement projects should be discussed on the article talk page before implementation". That's not so, editors are under no obligation to discuss changes on the talk-page before making them. Nevertheless, in the case of an article with as many problems as this one, some discussion might help to get things moving. So here's a suggested plan of action:
# Remove all unreferenced material
# Remove all self-published references and all content sourced only to them
# Remove all puffery and weasel language
# Identify some reliable independent third-party sources which cover the school in some detail (there may even already be some in the article)
# Write neutral factual content based on them.
 has already reminded us of the three core content policies – neutrality, verifiability and no original research – which apply as much to this page as they do anywhere else. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:00, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed improvement plan 

message: I'm adding this information to the talk page just in case it gets removed from the article:
:"If the board's new policy is implemented, the principal effect will be to greatly reduce the percentage of Asian-American students at TJ, while greatly increasing the percentage of whites." 
::— 
:"One of the most fascinating aspects of the new admissions plan is that the largest beneficiaries would not be racial minorities, but white students."
::— 
--JHP (talk) 08:42, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  References for admissions policy changes 

message: The "Admissions" section has a lot of info about different things related to the school's demographic composition, changes to the admissions process that took place in 2020, and litigation and activism about those changes. I think it should be split into separate sections, with the new "Admission" section being a simple explanation of how the admissions process currently works and a new section to hold all the information about demographics and litigation over the admissions process. Perhaps "Admissions Controversies", or "History of the admissions process". I know this has been edited recently so I don't want to make any significant changes to it without discussion. DinoInNameOnly (talk) 05:48, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created a subsection for the admissions controversy, modeled after the similar section on the page for Stuyvesant High School, which is a featured article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School#Demographics_and_SHSAT_controversy DinoInNameOnly (talk) 01:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admissions section is disorganized 

message: These sources are claiming that the school's Principal, as well as the school's Director of Student Services, deliberately avoided telling high achieving students about their possible eligibility for academic awards and scholarships because too many of them were Asian-American.
I think this information should be included in the article. 
What do others here think?
Here are some primary sources, as well as a few documents and a video that are linked to from those sources: 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-top-high-school-hid-213034509.html
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/top-ranked-virginia-high-school-accused-of-depriving-students-of-merit-awards
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-u-s-high-school-deprived-students-of-national-merit-awards-as-part-of-equity-policy/
https://www.city-journal.org/war-on-merit-takes-bizarre-turn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpcvIsMZBU
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23466063-national-merit-tjhsst-emails
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23466082/national-merit-scholarship-corporation-emails.pdf
SquirrelHill1971 (talk) 15:56, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  School hid info from students 

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