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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math options situation is the same at TJMS as Arlington wide.  What's unique about Jefferson?

*School uses the indoor track they share with the city rec center in the same building for PE. 
*School has an unusually nice auditorium/stage, again shared with city.
*School offers more languages than the other APS middle schools, and from 6th grade Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, ASL, Russian and German on demand on-line.  Unusually advanced students can have their own on-line classes in 8th grade in any of these languages.
*8th grade geography for all in 8th grade due to IB Middle Years curriculum, students can take advanced geog for HS credit.
[b]*Particularly good band, chorus and orchestra due to strong music director, "Ms. T."
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Yes, more poor kids than several of the AP neighborhood middle schools but good discipline and stable teaching force manage the poor kids well enough for us.  Only around 1/4 of the student at Jefferson are zoned for Washington-Liberty, but the group includes many high performers academically.  Moreover, other strong students often try to lottery/test into IB studies at W-L.  In a nutshell, the IBD program at W-L keeps a good cohort of strong TJMS students together for HS.[/quote]

Eh....debatable. Ms. T only does band. They do fine; but I wouldn't say they are "particularly good" per se.
Our kids have been out of TJ for a few years. So if Russian and German are now available in any form, that's new and very glad to hear it. Both of my kids took Latin at TJ. I assume/hope that is still an option.

The 8th grade geography class is World Geography, not advanced geography. And I thought that's systemwide, not unique to TJ or the IB program.

For those concerned at the sound of a shared indoor track for PE: they section off the indoor track/gym with a huge curtain. The students do not mix with the adults from the general public using the facilities. And I don't think it's really that many community members using it during school hours overall. I've never heard of any issues resulting from this arrangement.

Again, we've been gone a few years; but we had very good-to-outstanding teachers throughout, a great director of counseling who is no longer there, and an ok principal.[/quote]

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