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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are hearing people complain why our community school, Poe Middle, is not sending in substantial number of TJ applicants and thus not gaining high seat count as other schools like Carson Middle.  First off based on recent years data, Poe middle has sent around 25 applicants, which is significant given only a quarter of our students are math proficient at grade level, where as Carson Middle sent around 280 applicants well over ten times with very high math proficiency.  Our students are getting blamed for lack of STEM interest, which is not true.  Teach our students proper math and science, and out students will send in more TJ applications than Carson Middle, and get more seats.

FCPS should fix our school issues starting with chronic absenteeism, make sure basic as well as advanced math is taught to entire class, and stop making this a racial issue of why our majority hispanic and black student body is not scoring significant number of TJ seats.  We have fantastic teachers, but unless overall school issues are resolved, their lessons cannot be delivered effectively, and our students cannot learn math and science.  [/quote]

How does FCPS solve this? They call parents, the email parents, they send letters to parents. The schools remind parents of the importance of attending school. What do you propose that the county does?

At some point in time the onus shifts from the County and the School to the parents. The parents have to decide that school is important enough and make their kid go. If they parents are not willing to do that, there is not a darn thing that the school or the County can do.

Do you think that the kids at the other schools are all going to school because the school has positive spirit and is welcoming or because their parents have told them it is necessary for the future success in life? Plenty of kids at my sons school would be happy to hang out at home all day and not go to school if they were allowed to. School isn’t fun. they got o school because their parents tell them that they have to. They do well in school because they need to for college. They know this because their parents are telling them this. A few go and do well enough because they want to play a sport or participate in certain activities so they have to maintain decent grades.

Stop blaming the County. There is only so much that it can do. The parents need to step up and parent. If school is not important to them, if they are not talking to their kids about the benefits of school and doing well in school, that is on them.  [/quote]

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