Why we need TJ ? Why not all high schools be equal

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Highly gifted is 130+ IQ

Profoundly gifted (extremely rare) is 180+ or NLQ

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Anonymous wrote:There is no need for TJ. Or AAP.

They are not the same program. I know that there's at least one poster who is baffled by that concept. If that is you, then take some time to engage your brain. Maybe you'll figure it out.

Defund AAP.

Time to change TJ name!

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Anonymous wrote:All FCPS high schools are not equal. At all. Look at facilities, courses offered, clubs, activities, etc. Oh, and test scores and demographics.

Don't worry, school board coming for AAP centers next.

Let’s bring back busing! Make sure every FCPS has equal number of FARMs students, suspensions and disciplinary actions, drop-out rates, ESOL, IEPs, %college bound, %National Merit Semi Finalists ...and they can all wear uniforms.

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Anonymous wrote:All FCPS high schools are not equal. At all. Look at facilities, courses offered, clubs, activities, etc. Oh, and test scores and demographics.

Don't worry, school board coming for AAP centers next.

Let’s bring back busing! Make sure every FCPS has equal number of FARMs students, suspensions and disciplinary actions, drop-out rates, ESOL, IEPs, %college bound, %National Merit Semi Finalists ...and they can all wear uniforms.

And we can do all that stuff using a lottery system.

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Anonymous wrote:in terms of research opportunities/labs/equipment ?

Why put all money in one basket and select who needs to be in that based on lottery ?

No one needs it. The question is how do you select from those who want it. Currently a test among other things. The proposal is for a lottery. Either way, many kids who want to go there won't get in and they will be just fine. Noone's life will be destroyed by not getting into TJ under either system. Honestly, folks, get a grip.

Profoundly gifted (130+ IQ) children be benefit from learning in a classroom of peers by teachers who are specially trained and equipped to so.

I hate that term. It sounds too much like profoundly ret*****. Besides, highly unlikely that there are more than a handful of profoundly gifted at TJ. More likely it is that they are the offspring of the profoundly tiger parent.

There are 1000-2000 high school students with an IQ above 130 in fairfax county.

Why do I get the impression some creepy Indian guy is sitting at his house tracking this by both region and individual school pyramid. Shudder.

Why are you such a racist?

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Anonymous wrote:Highly gifted is 130+ IQ

Profoundly gifted (extremely rare) is 180+ or NLQ

These are made up terms.

No one is reliably measured at 180.

130 is different and rare enough to justify special education environments.

[Anonymous]

FCPS could and maybe should open up a(n) ELL-only immersion school(s); once students pass an English proficiency test (writing and speaking), then they may transfer into their in boundary school. This would be a rolling admissions program.

- FCPS sub who struggles to communicate with a sizable population of students, ages 5-19, who are unable to reply to or understand the most basic questions in English such as providing his/her first name. Absolutely terrifying in an emergency situation.

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Anonymous wrote:All students and parents are not equal. Some of them are real duffers and are not interested in education. Only a small number of gifted children are in the population and they require more advanced education. In their need for enrichment they are similar to SN students. They both are on opposite ends of the spectrum of academic needs. Yes, you can destroy TJ as soon as you defund all SN education.

Sorry but SN education is protected by law. Gifted education is not. Gov’t should provide vouchers to those who would qualify for said services and send them to area private schools that would provide TJ-like education. This is so solvable but people are so brainwashed into thinking that the government must do it when they can barely run schools as it is.

Which private schools in NoVa can provide that? TJ is a STEM school and the area private schools are not strong in STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we need MIT, Caltech, CMU ...? Their labs and professors should be available to all. Coincidently those schools have more Asians. It's time to "correct" that problem.

Aren't all these private schools? Big difference from a publicly funded K-12 school paid for by community taxpayers not tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we need MIT, Caltech, CMU ...? Their labs and professors should be available to all. Coincidently those schools have more Asians. It's time to "correct" that problem.

Aren't all these private schools? Big difference from a publicly funded K-12 school paid for by community taxpayers not tuition.

Why do we need UVA? We have W&M, VaTech, GMU and dozen other public universities. Same logic.

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Actually the kids with the scores to get into TJ need to go to the low performing schools and the low performing kids need to go to TJ and switch this up every year. Kids whose parents went to university need to do trade school and vice versa.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually the kids with the scores to get into TJ need to go to the low performing schools and the low performing kids need to go to TJ and switch this up every year. Kids whose parents went to university need to do trade school and vice versa.

That’s a good way of driving families out of your school system. People don’t want their lives constantly messed with.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually the kids with the scores to get into TJ need to go to the low performing schools and the low performing kids need to go to TJ and switch this up every year. Kids whose parents went to university need to do trade school and vice versa.

That’s a good way of driving families out of your school system. People don’t want their lives constantly messed with.

I was making a point. This is what was done in DDR and USSR to punish the elite and to attempt to equalize the classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually the kids with the scores to get into TJ need to go to the low performing schools and the low performing kids need to go to TJ and switch this up every year. Kids whose parents went to university need to do trade school and vice versa.

That’s a good way of driving families out of your school system. People don’t want their lives constantly messed with.

I was making a point. This is what was done in DDR and USSR to punish the elite and to attempt to equalize the classes.

What was done in the USSR? I went to school there, and most of the kids went to the school nearest to their home and stayed with the same group of about 30 classmates for 10 years, at the same school. We didn’t have elementary, middle and high schools. It was just one school a child attended from grade 1 to 10. Some of them left after grade 8 to go to trade school.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do we need MIT, Caltech, CMU ...? Their labs and professors should be available to all. Coincidently those schools have more Asians. It's time to "correct" that problem.

Aren't all these private schools? Big difference from a publicly funded K-12 school paid for by community taxpayers not tuition.

Why do we need UVA? We have W&M, VaTech, GMU and dozen other public universities. Same logic.

Shut down uva.