
Those are the 100 Asians. |
I have one of each too. And your perspective is all wrong. My TJ kid is ridiculously overprepared for college--for any college, ivies, top 50, whatever. My base school kid is having some growing pains in college. Why is getting into an ivy the end-goal? Life doesn't end there. |
They can say yes to the meals question but since they know whether a person who attends public is eligible it won't matter. Wasn't this conspiracy theory nonsense debunked already? |
Talk to literally any TJ Math teacher. They will tell you by far that their biggest frustration is students who are advanced beyond their capability. |
You did logic wrong here. There are plenty of kids at TJ who enter in Alg2, PreCalc, and Calc who absolutely belong there and are fully prepared. It shouldn't surprise anyone that a lot of these are the ones who do well in the college admissions process because they are genuinely bright enough to be as advanced as they are. The kids I'm talking about are the ones who are advanced beyond their capability because their parents believe that they must do so in order to appear as one of the genuinely bright and talented kids. These are among the students who struggle the most at TJ - they struggle FAR more than the students who enter in Geometry. |
Not anymore. That's part of the problem with the new process. In my school's 8th grade Algebra II class, the one kid who got accepted to TJ was the one over accelerated and in need of extensive tutoring to keep up. The kids who sailed through the course got waitlisted. Otherwise, yes, there are a small handful of kids accelerated beyond their ability. There is no way to detect those kids other than perhaps a holistic process using teacher recommendations, achievements, and other metrics to see which kids earning As in advanced math courses don't seem to have achievements or teacher impressions matching their acceleration level. It would be entirely possible to fill TJ at least twice over with kids who are appropriately accelerated into 7th grade Algebra or higher. There's no need to dip down into the pool of objectively less talented kids unless the kid displays something remarkable in some other avenue. Only in Bizarro World would someone suggest that a kid who has not demonstrated any particular math ability is generally a better math prospect than the kid who earned an A in 7th grade Honors Algebra I and another A in the first half of Honors Geometry. |
The new admission is making a joke in front of the whole Country. The school board members do not care the students. They only care about their political interests. Parents should file a lawsuit to against those school board members. |
If you have questions about the admissions decisions, please contact the Admissions Office at 571-423-3770 or tjadmissions@fcps.edu. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm. |
Approximately 75% of the Class of 2025 entered at least in Algebra II. And who knows? Maybe the others DID demonstrate something else remarkable. Without access to the applications, you really have no way of knowing. But my guess is that your idea of what constitutes "remarkable" is a lot more narrow than it should be. |
C4TJ is that you (again)? Go away. |
C4TJ did the right thing. The school board is hurting the community. Otherwise, the school board won't fail with the law-suite. TJ was merit-based and that's why students are willing to go to TJ. Making TJ worse doesn't help anybody. |
DP. I agree. I am not part of C4TJ, but they did the right thing here. At a minimum, C4TJ exposed the current school board for the radical extremists they truly are. And they did using only the SB’s own racist and radical email to each other. The current school board members are the villains here. That should be obvious to all by now. |
Radical extremists for opening admissions to students from all schools and backgrounds in the catchment area? Got it. |
Actually this statement right here just exposes you for the radical extremists that you truly are. Too late to try to sound "reasonable". You C4TJ people and supporters are on the crazy train. |
nah it's crazy to take a governors school designed for the best and water it down for the sake of geographic diversity |