TJ admission should be a pure lottery for all who meet application requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the purpose of TJ to provide a tech school for kids who are interested or is it to be the top school in the state/country?

If it is to provide a tech school for those interested in tech, it should be lottery. If it is to be the top school, that won’t work.

Check the TJ charter.

The stated purpose of Virginia Governor's Schools: "The Virginia Governor's School Program has been designed to assist divisions as they meet the needs of a small population of students whose learning levels are remarkably different from their age-level peers. The foundation of the Virginia Governor's School Program centers on best practices in the field of gifted education and the presentation of advanced content to able learners."

This is key. interested =/= able

[Anonymous]

Nope. One time I taught a truly special kid. Perfect recall. The only thing she got wrong all year was repeating a mistake I had made and later corrected. Kids like that really need TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4% of the county high school student population is not a small number of learners. A small number would be half of a percent of less.

What’s your point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. One time I taught a truly special kid. Perfect recall. The only thing she got wrong all year was repeating a mistake I had made and later corrected. Kids like that really need TJ.

Lame.

You had one kid like that one time. TJ isn’t there for one kid.

TJ lottery all the way!

[Anonymous]

I would be ok with a lottery for all eligible kids but the floor needs to be higher than it is now. 3.5 is not that high a GPA and yes a kid should be taking all honors classes in 8th at least if they plan to go.

[Anonymous]

Never going to happen the focus rightly or wrongly is to have more poor and brown people in the school now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be ok with a lottery for all eligible kids but the floor needs to be higher than it is now. 3.5 is not that high a GPA and yes a kid should be taking all honors classes in 8th at least if they plan to go.

I would say a 3.85. Not every kid is a 4.0 or higher and the pressure to hit that in MS is silly. A 3.85 allows a kid to not get an A in LA or Spanish or whatever. I do think a 4.0 in STEM classes should be a requirement, that is the purpose of the school. And I do think that kids should be taking all honors classes in 8th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be ok with a lottery for all eligible kids but the floor needs to be higher than it is now. 3.5 is not that high a GPA and yes a kid should be taking all honors classes in 8th at least if they plan to go.

Well a lottery could be cool. As long as it is still inclusive to those people.

[Anonymous]

Some people’s only goal is to “Make TJ Asian Again”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some people’s only goal is to “Make TJ Asian Again”

It already is and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, unless there is a massive shift in the applicant pool. Which I suppose is possible and would be excellent (your flagship school should produce high numbers of applicants from all demos), but the proof will be in the pudding.

But you're correct in your assertion that some families see TJ as a birthright because of their "priorities" and "work ethic".

There are reasonable people who have very real concerns about the new admissions process, but most of them don't exist here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ admission should be a pure lottery for all who meet application requirements.

Every school should have its quotas.

That’s the only thing hat would make it fair.

Troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TJ admission should be a pure lottery for all who meet application requirements.

Every school should have its quotas.

That’s the only thing hat would make it fair.

Might as well shut it down at that point since it will no longer serve its intended purpose.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Well it was not meeting it prior to this year either given how many kids were prepping for the test. If it was to really serve the tippy top kids that “need” TJ those kids would not need to prep. The whole factory business of prep schools made a mockery of that supposed goal TJ was trying to serve. So unless they can figure out a way around the preppers and the years long planning people did to strategize what activities to do to get in….I am happier with the new system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well it was not meeting it prior to this year either given how many kids were prepping for the test. If it was to really serve the tippy top kids that “need” TJ those kids would not need to prep. The whole factory business of prep schools made a mockery of that supposed goal TJ was trying to serve. So unless they can figure out a way around the preppers and the years long planning people did to strategize what activities to do to get in….I am happier with the new system.

Just shut the f up. It was the number 1 high school in the U.S. Clearly, the admissions process was getting the best and brightest. Stop all the Asian hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well it was not meeting it prior to this year either given how many kids were prepping for the test. If it was to really serve the tippy top kids that “need” TJ those kids would not need to prep. The whole factory business of prep schools made a mockery of that supposed goal TJ was trying to serve. So unless they can figure out a way around the preppers and the years long planning people did to strategize what activities to do to get in….I am happier with the new system.

Just shut the f up. It was the number 1 high school in the U.S. Clearly, the admissions process was getting the best and brightest. Stop all the Asian hate.

It was ranked number 1 by several publications because of the students' performance on standardized exams. Given that the admissions process overselected for test-taking ability and incentivized expensive and time-consuming courses, it shouldn't be surprising that the school ranked highly in those metrics.

Also, who said anything about Asians? Is the Asian identity so wrapped up in TJ that you can't separate the two?