The algebra 1 students find Calc AB itself a challenge in senior year. If they turn super smart after joining TJ, they would still need to skip a level to enroll in Calc BC, and that's about the highest level of their math path. |
If you listen to TJ Math teachers over the years, many would disagree with you. Students who take the progression of Geometry, Alg2, and PreCalc (or their TJ equivalents) at TJ rather than at their middle school will usually have a stronger foundation in the fundamentals at each level because they have learned those topics amidst the rigor of TJ. Students who enter TJ at a significantly advanced level, by contrast, will frequently have gaps in their fundamentals or understanding of the "why" behind the concepts unless they came from Eugene or Vern or someone equally strong. |
Foundation for what? Only by the senior year, Alg 1 students would reach the math level needed for TJ's science courses. Alg 2 and more advanced students can always cover their gaps if any during the 4 years while benefiting from the rigorous curriculum. Before the new admissions, most TJ students were Geo and higher, no complaint heard then. Teachers onlt started complaining in the new admissions when politics meddles with the teaching. |
This is a very muddled thought and I'm not quite sure what you were trying to get at with it. "TJ's science courses" are very different from those that you'll get a base high school, beginning with Freshmen Biology and running all the way through the AP and post-AP courses. There are a very small number of those courses that are only available with BC Calculus as a pre-requisite, but the rest of them do not have pre-reqs at all. You didn't hear the complaints from prior to the new admissions processes because either you weren't paying attention, you're not sufficiently connected to TJ, or you ignored them because they don't support your pernicious narrative. Please leave the conversation to those who actually know what they're talking about with respect to TJ. |
OMG, enough with the Alg 1 is really good BS. |
You're misunderstanding me, for whatever reason. I'm not saying that there's any inherent merit in students coming in from Alg 1. But what is absolutely, incontrovertibly true is that the equivalents of Geometry, Alg2, and PreCalc at TJ are orders of magnitude better than what you will get at a middle school, with very few exceptions. |
What's disheartening is that Equity hires have been brought into the TJ administration for key positions, and all complaints from math teachers must first go through them for vetting. Math teachers are prohibited from directly addressing concerns with students or parents via emails. Any communication from teachers "with concerns" must undergo an Equity filter. |
I just love these creative fictions. |
Courts have ruled that Teachers do have free speech rights. "In Pickering v. Board of Education (1968), the Supreme Court ruled that an Illinois high school science teacher, Marvin Pickering, had a First Amendment right to send a letter to the editor of the local newspaper. Pickering had been dismissed for sending a letter that criticized the school board " |
There may be that many willing, but it is not clear there are that many capable students. They increased the number of seats to blunt the impact of quota seats, but I suspect the number of students capable of handling the classes is actually lower. |
In a black majority school, DEI hires are black. In a white majority school, DEI hires are black. In an asian majority school, DEI hires are black. Why? |
Equity politics were never meant to help the truly deserving. |
Impact to Asian American students? Let's see...
The number of Asian students enrolled at TJ by school year (fall): 17-18: 1,216 18-19: 1,251 19-20: 1,293 20-21: 1,303 21-22: 1,264 ** 22-23: 1,293 ** 23-24: 1,275 ** |
Is this a serious question? To the extent that "DEI hires" exist in a public school system, which is limited, they exist because Black people have been suppressed from getting quality, high-paying jobs for the vast majority of this country's history - for no other reason than "we don't like Black people". |
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