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Care to be specific about how you think it's misleading? And my goodness, why would you take such a beacon of exceptional STEM education and just shut it down completely? Could it be because they're admitting kids that you think are less deserving because their kids haven't followed the exact same path as yours? Like it or not, shipping out 500 kids a year who have had access to TJ's remarkable facilities, faculty, and environment is a GREAT thing for Northern Virginia and the STEM community at large. Don't take that away just because you disagree with the way the kids are being selected. |
This is the ultimate on sour grapes: if I can’t have it, then no one else should get it either. |
Lol. Are you the school board??? |
AAP is the academic recognition. TJ should offer admission to top AAP students. For Non-AAP students, please be qualified for AAP first. |
DP, but it's misleading because it suggests that AAP centers and non-centers are on equal footing and that this is somehow fair to all. In reality, though, there is effectively now a disadvantage to being at an AAP center, at least if one's goal is admission to TJ. AAP courses are more difficult than non-AAP courses without greater weight in the GPA calculations. Also, AAP students are competing against their same-school peers, which is a more difficult pool than the pool of same-school peers at non-center schools. Those who think the demographics of TJ should mirror the demographics of FCPS will be happy to see more Gen Ed kids and fewer AAP kids admitted. Those who truly understand the mission of Governor's Schools will not. Unless this part of the process changes, we will soon see students leaving AAP for 8th grade to return to their base schools. What a perverse incentive to have created... |
Again I call your attention to what is happening in San Francisco where the progressives tripped over their own "good motives" and led the city to absolute dysfunction. It is obvious to everyone that this new TJ admissions process is broken (and that is not a call to reinstate the previous broken process) but the defenders of this "reform" will go lengths to justify why it is the best thing since sliced bread. Acknowledge this reform is effed up and go back to the drawing board. And that does not mean bring the previous process back. Do read the Atlantic link shared in the Politics forum - written by a lifelong SFO resident and democrat. You can see our future there... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/...sco-became-failed-city/661199/ |
It's not sour grapes. It's the recognition that the defenders of the admissions change will resort to ridiculous arguments, such as the notion that AAP and non-AAP students are equally qualified to attend what is ostensibly the county's most rigorous STEM-oriented high school. Why not allow TJ to revert to its original use as a local high school rather than pretend it's something that it's not? That's just common sense. |
How do you know that the kids who are admitted are Gen Ed students? They could be AAP accepted students that choose to attend their base school and not an AAP Center. They could very well have been in Advanced Math and choose to take Math 7th Honors or even taken Algebra 1 H and Geometry.
AAP classes and Honors classes have the same curriculum, the difference is in the kids who take those classes. |
True, It used to be mostly like this earlier where most TJ students used to come from center schools (Note: Center schools actually represent the entire region. If you don't believe me, please check it out) and a vast majority of them had already take geometry HN in middle school. Now it appears like close to 180 kids were enrolled in geometry HN at TJ. At least at my kids center schools, quite a few AAP kids were rejected in spite of perfect grades and tons of stem activities/electives and from the 'same' school many kids with not as good grades with no stem participation got into TJ. When kids are the same school, they have the same opportunities as everyone right? This is why kids are having really hard time believing the new admissions were really looking at the stem talent or interest. |
Well said. And it's not even like the School Board members knew what they were doing. Laura Jane Cohen, for example, didn't find out until after the change had already been approved that seats would be allocated based on the schools that students were actually attending, rather than their base schools. She was not the only School Board member unaware of what they'd actually voted upon. |
Non AAP students, not those of a certain race or SES, have the worst experience at TJ. |
How can you vote on something that you don't understand?? Oh well, I see this happens in politics all the time. No one reads the bills! Its said that they take such dumb decisions with out awareness that affect so many people. In the case of TJ, the goal was to improve diversity and at the end, it diluted the talent pool and with out much change in diversity. Who is winning here? |
It’s exactly 10%. And the modern definition in English means a large percentage. |
Guess they need to work on better articulating their experiences. |