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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t need a TJ just to make people who scored high on one IQ test feel like special snowflakes. Nor do we need one just so some dim-witted pork barrel politician like Karen Corbett Sanders can brag about how she got more TJ seats allocated to her own district.

Turn TJ back into a neighborhood school.

Top kids still need TJ. Whoever can catch up with the advanced education TJ used offer are qualified kids. We need both intelligence and diligence to make achievements.

Top kids are inbound for the top schools Langley McLean and Chantilly etc which can all handle advanced math. The school has outlived it's purpose, both sides are insufferable time to shut it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet somehow the other TJ classes were just fine.

The older classes didn’t need the tutoring the school offered to freshmen. The older students aren’t being asked to retake their math classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not everything needs to be turned into a new admission process vs. old one debate.

This is much more of an indictment of FCPS' terrible response to the pandemic. Kids who had significant portions of their foundational math instruction online, where As were handed out to every kid making the slightest effort and where cheating was rampant are not doing well now that they're being held to real standards.

Plus it was a crazy chaotic & uncertain time in our history. Very stressful.

A smart apolitical school board would have anticipated that and not pushed through such big reform in this timeframe.

So push off reform for how many years to look better politically?

[Anonymous]

Reform is done by giving equal opportunities to everyone not by rigging the system to get the results you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reform is done by giving equal opportunities to everyone not by rigging the system to get the results you want.

What do you propose that is truly equal opportunity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reform is done by giving equal opportunities to everyone not by rigging the system to get the results you want.

What do you propose that is truly equal opportunity?

How do you define equal opportunity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need a TJ just to make people who scored high on one IQ test feel like special snowflakes. Nor do we need one just so some dim-witted pork barrel politician like Karen Corbett Sanders can brag about how she got more TJ seats allocated to her own district.

Turn TJ back into a neighborhood school.

Top kids still need TJ. Whoever can catch up with the advanced education TJ used offer are qualified kids. We need both intelligence and diligence to make achievements.

Top kids are inbound for the top schools Langley McLean and Chantilly etc which can all handle advanced math. The school has outlived it's purpose, both sides are insufferable time to shut it down.

If those kids are the best fits, why not sending them to TJ? Why TJ should accept students who are not qualified? TJ is merit-based school, not welfare school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reform is done by giving equal opportunities to everyone not by rigging the system to get the results you want.

What do you propose that is truly equal opportunity?

How do you define equal opportunity?

All kids in FCPS have a legit shot regardless of their family’s income or background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We don’t need a TJ just to make people who scored high on one IQ test feel like special snowflakes. Nor do we need one just so some dim-witted pork barrel politician like Karen Corbett Sanders can brag about how she got more TJ seats allocated to her own district.

Turn TJ back into a neighborhood school.

Top kids still need TJ. Whoever can catch up with the advanced education TJ used offer are qualified kids. We need both intelligence and diligence to make achievements.

Top kids are inbound for the top schools Langley McLean and Chantilly etc which can all handle advanced math. The school has outlived it's purpose, both sides are insufferable time to shut it down.

If those kids are the best fits, why not sending them to TJ? Why TJ should accept students who are not qualified? TJ is merit-based school, not welfare school.

There are lots of qualified kids applying to TJ. Many qualified kids don’t get in - same as in the past.

[Anonymous]

Many folks posting comments here are either delusional or have no clue and would write anything to support their point of view that defies common logic. TJ math 4 article detailing email from tj 4 math teachers was not a surprise given all the tj kids now admitted are not tested for math even in the essay portion. TJ math is generally much harder than regular high school math, and even those with aptitude in math have to work hard to get good grade in these classes. Based on the email from math 4 teachers, this tj class was offered extra support, extra practice tests and quizzes, much easier test still the scores were the lowest ever, many students did not bother to even show-up for remedial 8th period classes. The practice final exam contained similar questions that were in final exam still many student got it wrong. Read the full email from the teachers to get better perspective. Unfortunately the low level school board politician or the brain dead TJ principal and the equity crusaders will not care about any of this simply because they don’t care about common sense reforms, but this will not go away because students without solid understanding of math 4 will face problems with math 5 and calculus ab and bc. I expect this problem will continue until they update the admission process to identify strong math students or dumb down the math curriculum significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many folks posting comments here are either delusional or have no clue and would write anything to support their point of view that defies common logic. TJ math 4 article detailing email from tj 4 math teachers was not a surprise given all the tj kids now admitted are not tested for math even in the essay portion. TJ math is generally much harder than regular high school math, and even those with aptitude in math have to work hard to get good grade in these classes. Based on the email from math 4 teachers, this tj class was offered extra support, extra practice tests and quizzes, much easier test still the scores were the lowest ever, many students did not bother to even show-up for remedial 8th period classes. The practice final exam contained similar questions that were in final exam still many student got it wrong. Read the full email from the teachers to get better perspective. Unfortunately the low level school board politician or the brain dead TJ principal and the equity crusaders will not care about any of this simply because they don’t care about common sense reforms, but this will not go away because students without solid understanding of math 4 will face problems with math 5 and calculus ab and bc. I expect this problem will continue until they update the admission process to identify strong math students or dumb down the math curriculum significantly.

How many kids out of 550 are in this bucket?. Did they drop out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reform is done by giving equal opportunities to everyone not by rigging the system to get the results you want.

What do you propose that is truly equal opportunity?

How do you define equal opportunity?

All kids in FCPS have a legit shot regardless of their family’s income or background.

In the past 2 years, a Longfellow kid without experience factors has 0 chance of getting in. How does that fly with your definition of equal opportunity? Or “privileged” kids can be “collateral damage” in your crusade for equity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reform is done by giving equal opportunities to everyone not by rigging the system to get the results you want.

What do you propose that is truly equal opportunity?

How do you define equal opportunity?

All kids in FCPS have a legit shot regardless of their family’s income or background.

In the past 2 years, a Longfellow kid without experience factors has 0 chance of getting in. How does that fly with your definition of equal opportunity? Or “privileged” kids can be “collateral damage” in your crusade for equity?

Weird my kid with 0 experience factors got in from Longfellow. Not sure what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many folks posting comments here are either delusional or have no clue and would write anything to support their point of view that defies common logic. TJ math 4 article detailing email from tj 4 math teachers was not a surprise given all the tj kids now admitted are not tested for math even in the essay portion. TJ math is generally much harder than regular high school math, and even those with aptitude in math have to work hard to get good grade in these classes. Based on the email from math 4 teachers, this tj class was offered extra support, extra practice tests and quizzes, much easier test still the scores were the lowest ever, many students did not bother to even show-up for remedial 8th period classes. The practice final exam contained similar questions that were in final exam still many student got it wrong. Read the full email from the teachers to get better perspective. Unfortunately the low level school board politician or the brain dead TJ principal and the equity crusaders will not care about any of this simply because they don’t care about common sense reforms, but this will not go away because students without solid understanding of math 4 will face problems with math 5 and calculus ab and bc. I expect this problem will continue until they update the admission process to identify strong math students or dumb down the math curriculum significantly.

How many kids out of 550 are in this bucket?. Did they drop out?

I heard the new admission process fixed this when they stopped admitting the subpar preppers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many folks posting comments here are either delusional or have no clue and would write anything to support their point of view that defies common logic. TJ math 4 article detailing email from tj 4 math teachers was not a surprise given all the tj kids now admitted are not tested for math even in the essay portion. TJ math is generally much harder than regular high school math, and even those with aptitude in math have to work hard to get good grade in these classes. Based on the email from math 4 teachers, this tj class was offered extra support, extra practice tests and quizzes, much easier test still the scores were the lowest ever, many students did not bother to even show-up for remedial 8th period classes. The practice final exam contained similar questions that were in final exam still many student got it wrong. Read the full email from the teachers to get better perspective. Unfortunately the low level school board politician or the brain dead TJ principal and the equity crusaders will not care about any of this simply because they don’t care about common sense reforms, but this will not go away because students without solid understanding of math 4 will face problems with math 5 and calculus ab and bc. I expect this problem will continue until they update the admission process to identify strong math students or dumb down the math curriculum significantly.

There were 2024 kids in Math 4. And the kids from 2025 who took geometry in 8th.

And many kids are still recovering from the world being turned upside down. Not getting help? Not doing the test corrections? That’s a motivation issue, not because the kids weren’t strong in math.

Sorry - can’t blame it all on admissions.