This Virginia high school led the nation with six perfect AP test scores
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"Rohan Suri, TJ ’17, as pictured in Forbes Magazine, 30-Under-30 in Healthcare. Senior Is One of Youngest on Forbes 30-Under-30 List Forbes Science & Health Lists Feature Four TJ Names Senior Rohan Suri, inspired by his younger brother’s misdiagnosed concussion, set out to create an improved method of detecting concussions on the sidelines so that injured kids could receive the treatment they needed to return to school and sports. Concussions are a growing problem in youth sports, and accurate diagnosis is one of the biggest challenges faced by athletic trainers and others who care for young athletes." http://tjpartnershipfund.org/2017/01/senior-is-youngest-forbes-30-under-30-winner/ |
Anonymous
Do you know any TJ kids? They are many things-- because they have diverse interests and talents. But none of them are losers. But make yourself feel better about yourself and your kid by insulting kids who are in the top 2% of FCPS HS grads, and could attend a base school and get into a great college, but instead apply for the opportunity to take an incredibly rigorous set of required classes, do 3 times the homework of average FCPS AP/honors kids-- often year round and challenge themselves to be the very best they can. And look at the list of top STEM schools that 20 plus TJ kid a year attend before you blather on about short underpaid careers. It blows my mind that some adults are so mean spirited and bitter that they insult kids who work so incredibly hard at school. |
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The adults who insult the students at TJ are basically doing that because they could not ever be in the same league as these students and neither could their children.
It is a case of sour grapes. Another thing is that these people cannot get over the fact that a huge chunk of TJ students are Asians and they are often in the news because of their achievements. Kudos to these brilliant students and congratulations to the proud parents too! |
Anonymous
Well, no one is asking you to be in the STEM field then, are they? I find that the well qualified, high achieving and highly educated STEM workers will find a place in this economy, but the less than average US workers will be weeded out. Thankfully, the students from TJ fall in the former category. They will do well. |
Anonymous
5 successful CEOs who majored in math: Math nerds of the world, rejoice. According to the Department of Education, students who study mathematics or science have the highest rates of employment. In fact, the advantages of a degree in math are significant: According to the National Math and Science Initiative, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) jobs are expected to grow 70 percent faster than overall employment during the next several years, and students that earn math degrees secure some of the highest-paying jobs. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/14/5-successful-ceos-who-majored-in-math.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=104341670&yptr=yahoo |
Anonymous
| For every new job in a STEM field, we'll import low wage H1B workers to artificially lower wages. The real question is why anyone with the brain power required to succeed in a STEM career would bother when they can make far more in any number of other field is beyond me. |
Anonymous
because maybe they're not just interested in "making more?" |
Anonymous
Another way to look at it is, they are making more - for someone else. 
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Anonymous
Oh please. It's not psychological damage . . . regardless of what this pp says. But, it is true that this school siphons off funds that could be spent raising the standards everywhere. I loathe this sort of thing and lump in AAP in with it (which my DC qualified for but we didn't apply for reasons not relevant here.) |
Anonymous
Then you have ZERO idea about what you are prattling on about. TJ gets the same per kid allotment as every other FCPS HS. Plus a small stipend from the state per kid (not FCPS, the state) as a governor's school. Everything else comes from public private partnership and fundraising by the TJ partnership fund among the TJ community. TJ gets do not get $1 more in funding per from FCPS than your base school is does. No money is being "siphoned off" from other students or other schools. |
Anonymous
Nice try there sparky Why does one school get the best equipment and teachers and students. Fairfax County as a WHOLE would be better served if these resources were shared across the ENTIRE SYSTEM TJ is just a continuation of the AAP bs. A poster about FARMS hit the nail on the head. TJ is less than 1% FARMS. That shows all you need to know. You get into TJ based on scamming the system through test prep and by scamming into AAP and scamming the entrance exam. There are gifted kids with low income that are being left out that TJ is really designed for but these kids don't have the resources to cheat into the system |
Anonymous
Best kids-- because 3000 apply a year to a MAGNET school. Best teachers? That's debatable. My kid has had some that are less than stellar. Some who don't really teach at all. Not every TJ teacher is amazing. But sure, great teachers want to teach bright, motivated kids. FCPs doesn't route them to TJ, they apply. Best facilities? Nice now, but TJ waited their turn under the CIP. 5 years ago they had some the worst facilities in the county. Really beat up, dingy, makes Lee look impressive facilities-- and still did amazing things. And best equipment? Yes, they have specialized lab equipment. But, all the extra lab equipment is funded by private industry and the TJ partnership fund (read: parents). fCPS does not pay for equipment beyond what base high schools get. And kids work their way in and prep their way in. But they don't cheat in. And having sent a kid through the process, this is just silly. Plus, are a ton of programs run by TJ to help FARMS kids prep, like Stembassadors and LIFT. But here's the sad fact. The single greatest predictor of academic success is material education. Followed by SES. FARM kids are behind academically everywhere in this country, basically from birth. They start behind, and they never catch up. They are not getting into TJ, sure. They are also not in the top 10% or even top 1/4 of base school classes. SES is the greatest single predictor of SES scores, and FARMS level SES makes admission to a competitive college equally unlikely. Sure, TJ would like more SES diversity. But they can't solve the SES achievement gap for the entire country, or even all of FCPS alone. And they have several large programs to try. It is a pervasive problem for which no one has found a good solution. But admitting kids who are behind academically is a bad idea. Even some top students, years ahead in math and well prepared can't hack it. It does a FARMS kid no favor to admit them, only to have them drop out or be asked to leave under the 3.0 Rule. I'm sorry you are so bitter about TJ. It reeks of parent whose kid was rejected. It's hard to imagine why else you care so much. Because some kid has something your kid does not? You want 20 more highly qualified kids at your base school knocking your kids class rank down? Because there is no extra money or equipment to be had. But TJ is not taking financial resources from base schools-- or even teachers who want to teach in base schools. And since they take less than 2% of each FCPS class, in an incredibly affluent, educated county, there are more than enough amazing smart kids left in the base schools to form a great peer group, where kids go to great colleges and do great things. So chiipll. TJ is not hurting you or your kid. Really. |
Anonymous
| What are "FARMS" and "SES"? New to these threads, pls. elaborate. |
Anonymous
FARMS = Free And Reduced Meals System, a program whereby families below certain levels of income can apply to have their student's school breakfasts & lunches wholly or partially subsidized. In context, a school's percentage of FARMS students therefore means the percentage of the student body that qualifies for either free or reduced price meals due to being from a low-income family. SES = socioeconomic status. This term is a rough measure of a person or family's relative social and economic class -- usually within the lower/middle/(upper middle)/upper class paradigm. The exact components of this measure, arguably more of a sociological concept than a straight economic one, are somewhat debatable, but there is likely to be general consensus that it assesses the individual's or family's position in relation to others based on at least the factors of income, education, and occupation. |
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So a bunch of kids who were selected into school based on a test turn out to be really good test takers?
I have no bone to pick with TJ, but I think it if we were to see six kids anywhere it would be a school like TJ. |