New TJ admissions proposal docs are up - 11/17 school board meeting
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They need to set aside a certain number of seats for each Junior High and combine that with a holistic review. You can include a set number of seats for the other counties and let those counties decide how they are going to select their students. For FCPS, students have to have a certain GPA (3.85 maybe), taken honors classes, taken Algebra 1, and letters of recommendations. If there are not enough applicants from a certain school or there are not enough kids who meet the threshold, those slots go into a general pool where kids who were not selected from their schools are reviewed.
There will be schools where there is not enough interest which will open at large seats but this would largely remove the issues associated with SES and URM because the slots will be available for the kids wh are interested and doing the work. |
Anonymous
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So When will TJ admission process be finalized and start accepting applications for 2025 class?
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Anonymous
No SAT or PSAT this year. Needs to be test-optional. And they should really market that there are spots! They could fix some of the diversity problems with the classes of 2023 and 2024 at the same time. |
Anonymous
How? They can’t hold the test. And there’s the matter of 28% of the class of 2024 coming from one prep company. It’s out of control and needs to either be fixed or shut down. |
Anonymous
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Agree it needs to be fixed, and absolutely support new admissions process, but what do you mean by 'shut down"?
They have sophomores and juniors who are well into the specialized required curriculum - what should happen to them? If you think TJ should be returned to neighborhood school, how do you suggest they handle the boundary changes and balance out other schools? If you think TJ should serve as an open academy for all FCPS kids to take advanced STEM classes, how do you make that work? You make it sound as though just closing the door is a realistic suggestion. The TJ hate is so strong with some of you that you can't think straight. |
Anonymous
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LOL - the "28%" sounds so much like "but what about her emails???!!!" Fix it. Don't throw it out. |
Anonymous
The Coalition for TJ was out with a release over a weekend saying Brabrand's two proposals were no good and should be rejected. Why shouldn't people just ask the School Board to shut down the magnet program at this point? We do not want a magnet that only serves a few populations within FCPS or a School Board that devotes roughly 50% of its time to trying and build a better TJ mousetrap. Shut it down and move on. |
Anonymous
Shutting it down isn't going to fix your problems, and it's not realistic. It's not happening. |
Anonymous
We'll see. This forum is full of threads where people claimed FCPS would never look to change TJ admissions, either. And yet here we are. |
Anonymous
| What a recipe for disaster. And I say this even though my kids are not interested in TJ. |
Anonymous
| If it ain't woke, it's broke! |
Anonymous
This is a bit over the top. 99.999999% of kids in the country/world don't go to TJ. My TJ grad is dating an intelligent high achieving young woman who is doing just fine having never gone to TJ. |
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| The TJ meeting scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed to a later date. |
Anonymous
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The projected data shows how this model would shift the balance from Asian community to white community leaving some few crumbs for other Black and Hispanic communities. Wow! Nice political approach! If white men dominates then, it is a balanced community.
Divide and conquer attitude! |