Thomas Jefferson High School drops to 5th in latest US News ranking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

[Anonymous]

The amazing thing to me is these ignorant, illiterate, innumerate people, who would never qualify for the lottery of TJ, trying to pass judgment on who belongs at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The amazing thing to me is these ignorant, illiterate, innumerate people, who would never qualify for the lottery of TJ, trying to pass judgment on who belongs at TJ.

Too bad that's how democracy works. We all get to vote on the school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amazing thing to me is these ignorant, illiterate, innumerate people, who would never qualify for the lottery of TJ, trying to pass judgment on who belongs at TJ.

Too bad that's how democracy works. We all get to vote on the school board.

I wouldn't count on there being enough of you to substantially change the balance of power. You're fortunate that the Dems who are running are a bit more moderate and experienced than the group that is finishing up their term right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

Repeat quoting the selective lines from the lefty article which conveniently ignores the significant impact of admission changes and resulting talent suppression

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

Repeat quoting the selective lines from the lefty article which conveniently ignores the significant impact of admission changes and resulting talent suppression

WTOP is not lefty and the data for the rankings was gathered before anything bad happened to your poor little school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

Repeat quoting the selective lines from the lefty article which conveniently ignores the significant impact of admission changes and resulting talent suppression

1) The quote doesn't conveniently ignore anything - it provides appropriate context to the data that was used to generate the results.

2) You don't have data to support an assertion of "resulting talent suppression". At best you have data to support a slightly reduced level of advancement.

D-, redo and resubmit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

Repeat quoting the selective lines from the lefty article which conveniently ignores the significant impact of admission changes and resulting talent suppression

WTOP is not lefty and the data for the rankings was gathered before anything bad happened to your poor little school.

WTOP is righty but has lefty reporters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

Repeat quoting the selective lines from the lefty article which conveniently ignores the significant impact of admission changes and resulting talent suppression

WTOP is not lefty and the data for the rankings was gathered before anything bad happened to your poor little school.

WTOP is righty but has lefty reporters

I'm gonna guess that your definition of "lefty" has no basis in reality. Care to share?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

“The data was from before Thomas Jefferson High School implemented changes to how it admitted students into the highly selective school.”

Repeat quoting the selective lines from the lefty article which conveniently ignores the significant impact of admission changes and resulting talent suppression

Never left facts get in the way of a good rant

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

And if the ranking does go up, expect the same posters coming back make the same comments but how it's proof that the school stinks now, because data is not relevant to their opinions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

I'm glad someone was paying attention when I made this point!! Thanks friend!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter when the rankings were made. People have already said TJ's scores will go down because they are no longer selecting for students who do well on tests. A high ranking is not the goal.

However, scores might go up, since someone posted above that the scores are compared to the expectations based on the racial makeup of the school. With more blacks and Hispanics, who will presumably outperform the typical black and Hispanic student. the test rankings might go up.

But a high ranking is the goal. To the parents.
The fact that their child's education is excellent, that US News rankings don't really matter and that the article says there's little difference between 5th and 1st doesn't matter.
The rankings matter so the parents can feel superior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The minority group, which significantly contributed to the school's excellence for decades, saw its number strength unjustly diminished by a lottery-based admission process devoid of merit. Is it any surprise that this school's trajectory appears to be following a path of de-excellence?

No surprise. Virginia will become California.