TJ admissions now verifying free and reduced price meal status for successful 2026 applicants

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My objection is the parents (there are quite a few parents like this, but certainly not everyone who has a kid at RSM and Kumon) who do it not because their kid needs the reinforcement or because their kid likes it, but because they want to push their kid ahead for the bragging rights or out of fear that their kid won’t get their piece of the economic pie as an adult. Honest to God, your career is not dependent on whether you took Algebra in 6th grade or even (gasp) 9th grade. It just isn’t. Your kid would be much better off trying a bunch of things and seeing what they like and are good at. You can force math and science but for some kids, it’s downright painful. You can’t bend their strengths and interests to your will as much as you may want to.

My kids attend AoPS. AoPS isn't set up to get kids into Algebra early. I don't think RSM is, either. The AoPS general sequence has Algebra in 7th grade, and that's assuming that the kid does well enough in pre-Algebra in 6th to move up. Kids are not often skipped ahead unless they're already way beyond the AoPS curriculum.

For the most part, FCPS doesn't allow kids to skip ahead, either. They have very specific criteria for Algebra in 6th, and simply being ahead isn't one of them. Most of the kids taking Algebra II in 8th are there due to taking summer Geometry.

Kumon isn't for every kid. For one thing, it is not designed to teach critical thinking. The goal is to learn math concepts and learn to do them very fast. Thats all there is to it. Its monotonous and could be boring for the kids. However, it does serve a purpose. I like kumon because, doing mental math fast and not depending on calculators or paper all the time for simple math or basic algebra is important to me. I didn't do any kumon back then, but I love being able to do lots of math, probabilities, estimations etc mentally and I would like my kids do the same. However, my older kid never got hooked to kumon and dropped out of few months, but my younger kid holding on and starting to get bored but wants to keep at it at least until the pre-algebra. It should be noted that kumon isn't really in line with school math, such as word problems and school touches a variety of concepts that kumon doesn't really teach. Having said, kumon does serve a purpose, though not for everyones liking.

Thank you for your honesty. Can you see how doing this is messing with learning things traditionally in school.

Also, there is 0 reason to take geometry over the summer, that needs to stop as well.

Again when you are applying for a job none of this matters, APP doesn't matter, TJ doesn't matter, where you went to college doesn't matter.

The sooner folks on these boards learn how the world actually works the better it is for everyone and we can have an accurate picture of who should be actually going to TJ.

Do you really think parents on this board don't know how the world works? are you serious?

Yes I think many do. I know personally If I knew networking is the key to getting a job and success I would have done things very differently in high school and college.

Again many folks think high test scores and acceleration are the keys to success. There is nothing that is further from the truth.

To the posters still pushing back, I hate to break it to you but as a high IQ person myself (and really regardless of that) many things are going to be boring and drudgery. That's life.

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Yes I think many do. I know personally If I knew networking is the key to getting a job and success I would have done things very differently in high school and college.

Again many folks think high test scores and acceleration are the keys to success. There is nothing that is further from the truth.

To the posters still pushing back, I hate to break it to you but as a high IQ person myself (and really regardless of that) many things are going to be boring and drudgery. That's life.

Thank you for the wisdom from a high IQ person!

Yes, let's cancel math/English/science/social studies classes and just have networking school. None of those things matter anyway.

And let's not try to overcome boredom, but just accept it as an inevitable part of life.

Boredom is necessary. It is where creativity thrives.

Some boredom is necessary

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I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

Well they did so

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

Well they did so

Verifiable source?

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

The Post is now a wire service. They will wait on the press release and regurgitate it with a click-bait headline and the dummy reporter’s name under it.

Anybody know if Hannah is as real person or a bot that lends a humanistic touch to an AI generated story?

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

Well they did so

The admissions portal is still missing the “Decision” tab. I don’t believe anyone who says that they have heard the updated result yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Was anyone’s reevaluated application for the free food question rejected?

Update decisions have not yet been issued. The admissions portal has a note saying it's down for maintenance, and the admissions decision tab is missing. The deadline for verifying FARMS status has passed and all appeals have been reviewed, so TJ has all of the information it needs to re-evaluate applications.

Updated admissions decisions should be forthcoming within a week. It seems very likely that some admitted students will be unadmitted and vice versa. Surely there were some applicants who checked yes, didn't have verification of FARMS status, and without the experience factor points are not strong enough to merit admission.

Given that they were quite clearly forced into verifying FARMS data, I would be shocked if they try to claim that there was no impact on admissions decisions.

You know nothing. See previous posts. Someone is saying their question was rejected. We need more information.

My friend's daughter was re-evaluated last night. She went from Acceptance to Waitlist

I won’t believe this until multiple people say it AND it isn’t about a friend; it’s about Their own children.

It’s true. I also heard from my child that a kid in her school was changed from accepted to waitlisted. The admission office began to re-evaluate the admission.

+1 - I also heard that a kid from my child’s school’s decision handed from acceptance to waitlisted.

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Decision tab is back!!

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

They have changed decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

They have changed decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

They have changed decisions.

Are you speaking from first-hand experience for your child?

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Interest in TJ is waning. There were 3034 applications for the Class of 2025, but only 2544 for the Class of 2026, and this decline was BEFORE the latest debacle relating to the FARMS status of applicants.

Really, if FCPS wanted to destroy the TJ brand, they could not have done a better job:

* Trash TJ parents and students publicly as toxic, test-prepped, wealthy cheats engaged in a "pay-to-play" scam;

* Make changes to the admissions process that weren't adequately vetted or fully understood by the School Board members voting to approve them;

* Host venues for warring factions of TJ parents to insult each other at PTA meetings;

* Prompt a federal judge to deem the admissions changes in violation of the Constitution;

* Allow a group of math teachers to call out collectively the students in the Math 4 sequence as a bunch of low-performing slackers with poor study habits;

* Leave families hanging as to whether kids admitted to the Class of 2026 might have their offers rescinded; and

* Inconvenience administrators at every other high school in the county by potentially requiring them to take on additional students they'd previously understood would be attending TJ.

TJ is now a sad shell of what it used to be and its tattered reputation seems unlikely to improve any time soon.

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Let's get rid of it!!

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Anonymous wrote:I will not believe that FCPS is changing admissions decisions until I read it in the Washington Post. I just don’t see FCPS going though with it.

They have changed decisions.

Are you speaking from first-hand experience for your child?

Doubtful. This is fake news.