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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
This shows that TJ is the best high school in the country not a school where students take bunch of easy AP classes like those schools ranked highly by USNW.

Those schools do not even offer Post-AP classes like Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, Quantitative Physics, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Complex Analysis etc.[/quote]

[quote]Considering the resources available to TJ being here in the seat of the defense industry how is this in any way surprising? Nice that the kids have the opportunity if they're interested, but a lot of great educating going on all over the country. If you're sitting around worrying about high school rankings, you're missing the point.[/quote]

There are defense/space industries located in Texas where the other highly ranked high schools are located and there is a well established space/technology community in California as well not to mention other areas. DC area is not the only area with defense/science community (In fact, other areas may have more advanced/developed aerospace industries than the DC area) and it is not given and certainly not expected that high school students located near a scientific community will design and build a satellite to be launched into space. It is an accomplishment that should not be diminished.

The PP probably was referring to the Texas high schools which are ranked higher than TJ by USN&W primarily based on the number of AP courses taken by each student regardless of the passage rate or the exam scores.   [/quote]

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