Reasons why one would not accept TJ offer?

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Anonymous wrote:Sending your child to TJ reduces their chances to go to a top university.

+1. I don’t understand why people believe it helps. TJ kids with a 4.3 and 1600 struggle to get into UVA. At your base school, it would be a safety school for your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:TJ culture is very toxic. Lots of cheating activities inside the school.

Hmm. As a parent member of a student related group . This is not true esp in the current healthy environment.

Is your kid currently in TJ?

Thanks

My kid is at TJ - new admissions process. He says cheating is rampant.

Kids take pictures of exam problems and share with others who have not yet taken the exam. A whole group of kids have As just based on cheating. Its common knowledge to all - even the administration - but they just turn a blind eye

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ culture is very toxic. Lots of cheating activities inside the school.

Of course, admit lower math students and leave them no choice but to cheat. This was happening before admissions change and after change it grew exponentially.

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Anonymous wrote:Sending your child to TJ reduces their chances to go to a top university.

+1. I don’t understand why people believe it helps. TJ kids with a 4.3 and 1600 struggle to get into UVA. At your base school, it would be a safety school for your kid.

Yet, an envious base school parent cant stop talking about TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:Sending your child to TJ reduces their chances to go to a top university.

+1. I don’t understand why people believe it helps. TJ kids with a 4.3 and 1600 struggle to get into UVA. At your base school, it would be a safety school for your kid.

Yet, an envious base school parent cant stop talking about TJ.

PP was right about the admissions struggle. If you have a kid at TJ, feel free to look at the stats for yourself in Naviance.

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I was looking at Naviance for UVA today and it was a sea of red marks at anything under 4.3 GPA. SAT scores do not seem to have much impact. Is this common at other HS as well for UVA? Or do they have lower cut offs?

It seems they drew a clear line at 4.3 GPA and anything below from TJ is an auto reject. However, the Naviance data is just for one year I think. Is this also true in the past?

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Anonymous wrote:TJ culture is very toxic. Lots of cheating activities inside the school.

Hmm. As a parent member of a student related group . This is not true esp in the current healthy environment.

Is your kid currently in TJ?

Thanks

My kid is at TJ - new admissions process. He says cheating is rampant.

Kids take pictures of exam problems and share with others who have not yet taken the exam. A whole group of kids have As just based on cheating. Its common knowledge to all - even the administration - but they just turn a blind eye

They need to report them. It gets put on their record and they will not get into a 4 year college.

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Cheating happens in each grade and admin knows about it well. Some students even brought the testing questions directly to their teachers asking for answer keys before the tests and were caught by teachers.

The cheating activities have been reported to admin many times and they just ignore given the large group of students involved. I heard those students have one big group in discord or facebook(?)

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Anonymous wrote:TJ culture is very toxic. Lots of cheating activities inside the school.

Hmm. As a parent member of a student related group . This is not true esp in the current healthy environment.

Is your kid currently in TJ?

Thanks

My kid is at TJ - new admissions process. He says cheating is rampant.

Kids take pictures of exam problems and share with others who have not yet taken the exam. A whole group of kids have As just based on cheating. Its common knowledge to all - even the administration - but they just turn a blind eye

They need to report them. It gets put on their record and they will not get into a 4 year college.

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Anonymous wrote:Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year?

They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying past questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies

No, it's not that kind of test. The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test. Which they did. Problem solved. People complain, but people complain about everything.

The test was the SHSAT. The current "test" isn't actually a test. It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids!

We were at the open house last night. My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff. I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result. The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist. Those hearings were racist AF.

How many Black and Hispanic students did you see last night? Not many I bet.

I was at my older ones HS Basketball game and didnt see any Asian American students? Where is equity, I had to wonder!

Basketball comment

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Anonymous wrote:Wierd they couldn’t figure out new questions every year?

They did. The notion that the problems seen at Curie were the exact same as those asked in future admissions test is false. "Buying the answers" really means "buying past questions and answers".

Personally, I think the solution would have been to publicly release past exams to reduce the benefit of places like Curies

No, it's not that kind of test. The solution was to scrap it and change to a different type of test. Which they did. Problem solved. People complain, but people complain about everything.

The test was the SHSAT. The current "test" isn't actually a test. It's a combination of "what I did for my summer vacation" combined with "why I really really really want to go to TJ"

Which is why you are so happy that your kid doesn't have to go to a school filled with those sorts of kids!

We were at the open house last night. My kid is going next year but when he came home and told me about the test, I was like "Oh, so it's a lottery?"

No doubt the kids are all bright because they had to meet the cutoff. I am glad to see the increase in free/reduced lunch kids but the intent behind the change was to move the goalpost to get a particular racial result. The current method is so random, and its very hard to argue that something that is effectively a lottery is racist. Those hearings were racist AF.

How many Black and Hispanic students did you see last night? Not many I bet.

I was at my older ones HS Basketball game and didnt see any Asian American students? Where is equity, I had to wonder!

Basketball comment

I'm african american and my child plays basketball year round. It's is a popular sport in NoVa. What's your problem?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are from Loudoun and chose the Academies offer, as we didnt want to subject our child to the pressure of keeping up with TJ demands and competitive peer group. AoS is quite manageable since it is part time, with most of language, arts, social studies, and sports at base school.

The demand for TJ is much greater than the 550 spots available. Fairfax should add a second TJ-style school, similar to AOS/AOT.

I'd like to see a second STEM magnet high school as well as a high standard of academic excellence for admissions. In other words, not to allow all who "demand" to attend, but the qualified who have to be cut out because of class limits and the new admission process. Also, it would be a huge plus to have the long bus rides/school day closer to a normal commute.

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Anonymous wrote:We are from Loudoun and chose the Academies offer, as we didnt want to subject our child to the pressure of keeping up with TJ demands and competitive peer group. AoS is quite manageable since it is part time, with most of language, arts, social studies, and sports at base school.

The demand for TJ is much greater than the 550 spots available. Fairfax should add a second TJ-style school, similar to AOS/AOT.

I'd like to see a second STEM magnet high school as well as a high standard of academic excellence for admissions. In other words, not to allow all who "demand" to attend, but the qualified who have to be cut out because of class limits and the new admission process. Also, it would be a huge plus to have the long bus rides/school day closer to a normal commute.

Of course, they will never do. The ranking and test scores of that school will be a huge embarrassment for their equity politics.

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Stop Yapping.

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Anonymous wrote:We are from Loudoun and chose the Academies offer, as we didnt want to subject our child to the pressure of keeping up with TJ demands and competitive peer group. AoS is quite manageable since it is part time, with most of language, arts, social studies, and sports at base school.

The demand for TJ is much greater than the 550 spots available. Fairfax should add a second TJ-style school, similar to AOS/AOT.

I'd like to see a second STEM magnet high school as well as a high standard of academic excellence for admissions. In other words, not to allow all who "demand" to attend, but the qualified who have to be cut out because of class limits and the new admission process. Also, it would be a huge plus to have the long bus rides/school day closer to a normal commute.

Of course, they will never do. The ranking and test scores of that school will be a huge embarrassment for their equity politics.

Or they can just rename one of the bottom school to TJ 2

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Aaron Burr