Assistant Principal Frank is out. Odd announcement?

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There’s a remarkable amount of speculation in this article that is flat out nonsense.

Since some of it is wrong (like the ranking falling having to do with the admissions when the data is from before the admissions), I assumed the writer and editor just didn't do a good job. Seems to be happening more and more at NR since they lost so many people to The Dispatch.

The ranking includes data from the 2021/2022 school year. The class of 2025 were freshmen then. I don't put a lot of stock in the USNWR high school ranking because it changes depending on the methodology.

Whoa! Really?? Then TJ is going to drop down to something like 75th best school once the data is just 2025 -2028.

I don't know about that but the problem isn't the ranking, the problem is that a lot of the kids that most need something like Tj are not getting it and a lot of kids that are getting it are overwhelmed.

I suspect the DEI folks could achieve their diversity objective without sacrificing too much merit by re-implementing the testing requirement and keeping the 1.5% and experience factors.

Sure some kids still get screwed but TJ admissions has become political and that means we have to balance merit admissions against political reality.
Complain all you want about rankings, the FCPS board is not going to change so drastically that they are going to change to a pure merit based system.