The kids who don't fall in the top 1.5% of their school most often come from wealthy feeders where parents can afford to invest more heavily in outside enrichment. Many of the kids who aren't in the top 1.5% of Cooper or Longfellow may have higher stats than the very top kid at less affluent school. Nevertheless, TJ only gets the very best the county has to offer, and personally sometimes these kids who manage to do well without the outside enrichment are incredibly gifted and benefit even more from what TJ has to offer. Kids from wealthy schools whose parents support them will be fine regardless, but for others this experience is life changing. |
Basically the 3rd tier preppers aren't getting in bacause high-performing kids from less affluent schools are taking their spots. |
You're wrong. The 3rd tier preppers are still getting in. They're displacing the academically elite kids from the higher SES schools. I'm all for the 1.5% allocation per school. The thing I'm against is making the application so sparse that they can't differentiate between the 3rd tier preppers and the highly gifted kids within any school. |
I’m strongly pro-reform and I have this concern as well. I don’t think my concern is perhaps as severe as others, but I do worry that TJ isn’t getting the right kids from Carson, Longfellow, Cooper, Rocky Run, etc. |
Are you poor? You’re in. Everyone else? Lottery |
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No, they're right. It's baked into the process. |
Nope. Are you advanced merit? We limit you based on your skin color Right kind of skin color? You are in, even if unqualified |
Fake news. It’s a race blind admissions process. And there are just as many Asian students there as there were before the change. |
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 ** |
Who says there's no racial quota management? Magically, the Asian percent alone has gone down, and stays down? |
Percent total of Asians will obviously go down, mathematically, because there are many middle schools where there are very few Asians. If more Asians moved to other middle schools instead of primarily concentrating in Rocky Run, Carson, and Cooper, then the Asian percentage will go up again. |
Those bottom middle schools do not teach math classes beyond Algebra 1. Even in their Algebra 1 math class, prealgebra is being taught but inflated A grades are being given out. How do we know this? The SOL scores show 75% of the class failing at grade level Algebra 1 math. |
Intentionally misleading y-axis. Try again. |
Which FCPS middle schools aren't teaching Geometry? The SOL data indicates that Key, Poe, and Stone have some kids taking the geometry SOL, and some years have numbers above the reporting threshold of 10. Also, the SOL scores posted on the VDOE page show that all of these lower SES middle schools have an Algebra I SOL pass rate of at least 80%. |