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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No boost for doing math early

DD is a rising senior at TJ and got in with a 4.0 from a non-feeder FCPS school.

My personal advice though would be to think hard about sending a kid to TJ who did not get an A in Alg 1 unless something unusual was going on. I think TJ tends to work out best for kids that mainly breezed through math at the base school (at an advanced level).

I say this as also mom to DC2 who got an A- in algebra 1 after retakes and hounding on doing homework. I was relieved when they decided they did not want to test for TJ.

Now if the A- was due to some flukes or JUST missed getting an A that may be different. [/quote]

We were 0.2 away from an A. DD ended with a 92.3 in the class, and got a 94 on her final. For the quadratics unit & after, her teacher had left because she just gave birth to her baby. We were left with a substitute for the rest of the year, and she was awful at teaching. DD told me at one point no one had an A in that class when the substitute was there.  But, we are aware that is not an excuse. We were planning on sending her to summer geometry, but we did not because she still has some algebra skills to work on. At home, she is strengthening her algebra skills and working on a few geometry workbooks. I think she will be ready for TJ. We’ll see how geometry goes next year. (Planning on not sending her if she gets an A- in geometry as well) [/quote]

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