TJ math vs base school math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot have

"Base HS is not enough, and not meeting my kids needs"

and

"Why is TJ so much harder than base HS?"

People have a gross misunderstanding of the benefits of TJ and why you would want to go there.

Going to TJ will not help your kid if they are not ready for it.

Sending unprepared kids to TJ is not doing them any favors.

That first year we saw a lot of freshmen (the conservative estimates on this board were ~40) drop out before the beginning of their sophomore year.
Since then we have seen more remediation, more intervention and a mandatory counseling session before you were returned to your base school.
It is unconscionable how we are using these poor unprepared kids for a social experiment aimed at making it look like there isn't a racial achievement gap.

has that caused more sophomore drop outs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot have

"Base HS is not enough, and not meeting my kids needs"

and

"Why is TJ so much harder than base HS?"

People have a gross misunderstanding of the benefits of TJ and why you would want to go there.

Going to TJ will not help your kid if they are not ready for it.

Sending unprepared kids to TJ is not doing them any favors.

That first year we saw a lot of freshmen (the conservative estimates on this board were ~40) drop out before the beginning of their sophomore year.
Since then we have seen more remediation, more intervention and a mandatory counseling session before you were returned to your base school.
It is unconscionable how we are using these poor unprepared kids for a social experiment aimed at making it look like there isn't a racial achievement gap.

has that caused more sophomore drop outs?

More Sophomores didn't drop out, more freshmen dropped out.

I suspect they dropped out because they were having a lot of trouble keeping up academically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot have

"Base HS is not enough, and not meeting my kids needs"

and

"Why is TJ so much harder than base HS?"

People have a gross misunderstanding of the benefits of TJ and why you would want to go there.

Going to TJ will not help your kid if they are not ready for it.

Sending unprepared kids to TJ is not doing them any favors.

That first year we saw a lot of freshmen (the conservative estimates on this board were ~40) drop out before the beginning of their sophomore year.
Since then we have seen more remediation, more intervention and a mandatory counseling session before you were returned to your base school.
It is unconscionable how we are using these poor unprepared kids for a social experiment aimed at making it look like there isn't a racial achievement gap.

has that caused more sophomore drop outs?

More Sophomores didn't drop out, more freshmen dropped out.

I suspect they dropped out because they were having a lot of trouble keeping up academically.

Perhaps sophomores didn't drop out, but signs of academic struggle emerged after sophomore admissions went test optional in 2021-22. The Class of 2024 had no SOL failures as freshman in 2020-21 but post sophomore admissions change, six students failed the science SOL in 2021-22 sophomore year and seven students failed the reading SOL in 2022-23 as juniors. Class of 2024 is interesting because their statistics only reflect the change in sophomore admissions, not freshman admissions. For Class of 2025 and beyond, sophomore-senior year test scores would be affected by both freshman and sophomore admissions changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot have

"Base HS is not enough, and not meeting my kids needs"

and

"Why is TJ so much harder than base HS?"

People have a gross misunderstanding of the benefits of TJ and why you would want to go there.

Going to TJ will not help your kid if they are not ready for it.

Sending unprepared kids to TJ is not doing them any favors.

That first year we saw a lot of freshmen (the conservative estimates on this board were ~40) drop out before the beginning of their sophomore year.
Since then we have seen more remediation, more intervention and a mandatory counseling session before you were returned to your base school.
It is unconscionable how we are using these poor unprepared kids for a social experiment aimed at making it look like there isn't a racial achievement gap.

has that caused more sophomore drop outs?

More Sophomores didn't drop out, more freshmen dropped out.

I suspect they dropped out because they were having a lot of trouble keeping up academically.

Perhaps sophomores didn't drop out, but signs of academic struggle emerged after sophomore admissions went test optional in 2021-22. The Class of 2024 had no SOL failures as freshman in 2020-21 but post sophomore admissions change, six students failed the science SOL in 2021-22 sophomore year and seven students failed the reading SOL in 2022-23 as juniors. Class of 2024 is interesting because their statistics only reflect the change in sophomore admissions, not freshman admissions. For Class of 2025 and beyond, sophomore-senior year test scores would be affected by both freshman and sophomore admissions changes.

I'm a little confused. We are talking about students taht dropped out of Tj and went back to their base schools, right?