Why is TJHSST exempt from overcrowding?

[Anonymous]

Other FCPS schools have capacity problems and have to accommodate 110% or more kids at times — why should TJ be allowed to have a precise number?

[Anonymous]

Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

DP, but you’re an ass. More kids could handle the TJ curriculum than are admitted, but the number of admits is capped even when the building and site could accommodate more kids. So OP’s question is still legitimate. Either the county needs to build more schools or they should reclaim TJ as a community school. It’s unfair and quite possibly illegal for TJ students to enjoy privileges denied other students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

Maybe they can set up a system where it's structured like an AAP center so there are base school kids and the magnet kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

DP, but you’re an ass. More kids could handle the TJ curriculum than are admitted, but the number of admits is capped even when the building and site could accommodate more kids. So OP’s question is still legitimate. Either the county needs to build more schools or they should reclaim TJ as a community school. It’s unfair and quite possibly illegal for TJ students to enjoy privileges denied other students.

All these flavors you could be and you choose salty

Sorry your kid didn’t get in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

DP, but you’re an ass. More kids could handle the TJ curriculum than are admitted, but the number of admits is capped even when the building and site could accommodate more kids. So OP’s question is still legitimate. Either the county needs to build more schools or they should reclaim TJ as a community school. It’s unfair and quite possibly illegal for TJ students to enjoy privileges denied other students.

There (s)he goes again! Keep posting this a few thousand times a day. maybe it'll come true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

DP, but you’re an ass. More kids could handle the TJ curriculum than are admitted, but the number of admits is capped even when the building and site could accommodate more kids. So OP’s question is still legitimate. Either the county needs to build more schools or they should reclaim TJ as a community school. It’s unfair and quite possibly illegal for TJ students to enjoy privileges denied other students.

There (s)he goes again! Keep posting this a few thousand times a day. maybe it'll come true.

OP: Good question to ask at the next school board meeting..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they’re a magnet school. Kids apply to go there, they get to select the size of their class.

Try to keep up.

DP, but you’re an ass. More kids could handle the TJ curriculum than are admitted, but the number of admits is capped even when the building and site could accommodate more kids. So OP’s question is still legitimate. Either the county needs to build more schools or they should reclaim TJ as a community school. It’s unfair and quite possibly illegal for TJ students to enjoy privileges denied other students.

All these flavors you could be and you choose salty

Sorry your kid didn’t get in

You really are a complete ass.

[Anonymous]

The actual answer to the question is that TJ, as a governor’s school, gets a financial supplement from the state per kid to offset the extra costs associated with educating a kid at TJ. And the state legislature sets the number of kids they are willing to pay a supplement for. Last time I checked, TJ still accepted more kids than the state reimburses for, and FCPS eats the added cost. To add even more kids above that, you need a bigger TJ budget.

Plus, even with the renovation, they only have so much space for the TJ specific mandatory classes, like Design Tech and Senior labs. And research labs and design tech are not classes you can safely or effectively add extra students to. History? Yes. Specialized microelectronics research? Not so much.

But I have a feeling Op was not looking for an actual answer.

I’m interested in the uptick in TJ is the root of all evil posts in February. Usually there is a spate of these posts after decisions are released in April. Were there an unusually large number of surprising first round cuts this year pwith the new test? Or do parents have the sense their kid bombed the SiS?

[Anonymous]

Maybe people are getting tired of the arrogant and dismissive TJ parents, who for the most part are indifferent to the conditions at other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other FCPS schools have capacity problems and have to accommodate 110% or more kids at times — why should TJ be allowed to have a precise number?

It is a Governors school and is for more than FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other FCPS schools have capacity problems and have to accommodate 110% or more kids at times — why should TJ be allowed to have a precise number?

It is a Governors school and is for more than FCPS.

Who owns the building?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The actual answer to the question is that TJ, as a governor’s school, gets a financial supplement from the state per kid to offset the extra costs associated with educating a kid at TJ. And the state legislature sets the number of kids they are willing to pay a supplement for. Last time I checked, TJ still accepted more kids than the state reimburses for, and FCPS eats the added cost. To add even more kids above that, you need a bigger TJ budget.

Plus, even with the renovation, they only have so much space for the TJ specific mandatory classes, like Design Tech and Senior labs. And research labs and design tech are not classes you can safely or effectively add extra students to. History? Yes. Specialized microelectronics research? Not so much.

But I have a feeling Op was not looking for an actual answer.

I’m interested in the uptick in TJ is the root of all evil posts in February. Usually there is a spate of these posts after decisions are released in April. Were there an unusually large number of surprising first round cuts this year pwith the new test? Or do parents have the sense their kid bombed the SiS?

The current 8th grade class is the same bloated AAP year group that had the big test cheating scandal resulting in crazy amounts of kids being selected for AAP.

I am sure there is some correlation with what you are observing. Maybe you are hearing from people who just realized how much more difficult it is to cheat into TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The actual answer to the question is that TJ, as a governor’s school, gets a financial supplement from the state per kid to offset the extra costs associated with educating a kid at TJ. And the state legislature sets the number of kids they are willing to pay a supplement for. Last time I checked, TJ still accepted more kids than the state reimburses for, and FCPS eats the added cost. To add even more kids above that, you need a bigger TJ budget.

Plus, even with the renovation, they only have so much space for the TJ specific mandatory classes, like Design Tech and Senior labs. And research labs and design tech are not classes you can safely or effectively add extra students to. History? Yes. Specialized microelectronics research? Not so much.

But I have a feeling Op was not looking for an actual answer.

I’m interested in the uptick in TJ is the root of all evil posts in February. Usually there is a spate of these posts after decisions are released in April. Were there an unusually large number of surprising first round cuts this year pwith the new test? Or do parents have the sense their kid bombed the SiS?

The current 8th grade class is the same bloated AAP year group that had the big test cheating scandal resulting in crazy amounts of kids being selected for AAP.

I am sure there is some correlation with what you are observing. Maybe you are hearing from people who just realized how much more difficult it is to cheat into TJ?

And I am not a TJ parent.

I am just annoyed by the "if my kid doesn't get the something special than no kid should get something special" crowd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The actual answer to the question is that TJ, as a governor’s school, gets a financial supplement from the state per kid to offset the extra costs associated with educating a kid at TJ. And the state legislature sets the number of kids they are willing to pay a supplement for. Last time I checked, TJ still accepted more kids than the state reimburses for, and FCPS eats the added cost. To add even more kids above that, you need a bigger TJ budget.

Plus, even with the renovation, they only have so much space for the TJ specific mandatory classes, like Design Tech and Senior labs. And research labs and design tech are not classes you can safely or effectively add extra students to. History? Yes. Specialized microelectronics research? Not so much.

But I have a feeling Op was not looking for an actual answer.

I’m interested in the uptick in TJ is the root of all evil posts in February. Usually there is a spate of these posts after decisions are released in April. Were there an unusually large number of surprising first round cuts this year pwith the new test? Or do parents have the sense their kid bombed the SiS?

The current 8th grade class is the same bloated AAP year group that had the big test cheating scandal resulting in crazy amounts of kids being selected for AAP.

I am sure there is some correlation with what you are observing. Maybe you are hearing from people who just realized how much more difficult it is to cheat into TJ?

And I am not a TJ parent.

I am just annoyed by the "if my kid doesn't get the something special than no kid should get something special" crowd.

Yeah, what were they thinking when they came up with that silly “equal protection” clause?