TJ admissions results out?
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Anonymous
| that's what the capable kids deserve |
Anonymous
Throughout the whole school year, 21 freshmen have dropped out. |
Anonymous
Nope they don’t. You are confusing family income data for family demographic data. They have demographic data - you are right. They don’t have any income data to override the response to the FARMS question in the TJ Application. |
Anonymous
It's expected that there will be more students who will go back to their base school after finishing the year out. |
Anonymous
THe published stats disagree. |
Anonymous
You're missing the point on purpose. They actually do have exactly which public school students are receiving free meals and the rumor that this was being abused spread by the C4TJ conspiracy theoriests was debunked. |
Anonymous
You are correct. The TJ Admissions office appears to be doing whatever it wants without regard to the regulations passed by the school board. |
Anonymous
The school board has not stated this anywhere. In fact it has been independently established that there is no basis to the false claim you are propagating. A simple link to an official document could support your position. There is none because your position is all fiction. Again - show us the official document or back off your falsehood. |
Anonymous
Nope. Class of 2025 - 9 didn't start in Sept and 13 dropped out through April, bringing total loss to 22 (4% of admitted class) Class of 2024 - 8 dropped out this year, bringing total loss to 44 (9% of admitted class) Class of 2023 - 1 dropped out this year, bringing total loss to 44 (8.7% of admitted class) Class of 2022 - 0 dropped out this year, bringing total loss to 34 (7% of admitted class) |
Anonymous
Or, you know, YOU could provide supporting documentation - not a phone call - that suggests that the number 1 high school in the country has an admissions office that is relying on a checked box on an application to allot hundreds of points in a weighted process. Rather than, you know, understanding that schools have been collecting this information for decades to determine who qualifies for free and reduced lunch. And if your question is "well, then why offer the opportunity to check the box?" I would refer you to the fact that in FCPS, the minute you pop in your student ID number they could essentially pre-fill the rest of your initial application for you. You select your race and ethnicity, but they know that already. |
Anonymous
On the TJ admissions form race/ethnicity was already pre-populated. |
Anonymous
You miss an important point. COVID upended many lives and any historical data is meaningless and overridden by current information. Even otherwise income/poverty is a dynamic variable unlike race. So if you checked white in kindergarten, you remain white forever in FCPS records. But you may be rich in kindergarten and homeless when you enter high school. So, no - historical data means little for poverty and even less so during the Pandemic. |
Anonymous
| To make it fair, the admission points calculation should be more transparent. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
Thanks. I created the “number of TJ drop outs” thread earlier this year. My thread was based on a claim from another parent: 50 kids had dropped out of TJ. If 21 freshmen alone dropped out of TJ this school year, it appears more plausible a total of 50 students may have dropped out from all grades. |