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Not going to happen.

This question has been percolating for two decades.

ACPS has no interest in making it happen. They don't want the brain drain for starters as their scores are bad enough already. But more to the point, ACPS isn't oriented around helping high-achieving students or their families. It's about meeting basic needs of a largely at-risk population.

He's gone now, but former superintendent Mort Sherman said this explicitly multiple times. Parents of high-achievers were told to go private if they felt under served.

There is zero interest in the ACPS culture to make TJ happen. Bless your heart for thinking you can change that. If you do, you'll succeed where many, MANY others have failed.[/quote]

The argument would be that not allowing ACPS students to attend TJ results in a brain drain, so ACPS might as well let its students compete for slots.   Hard-working students denied admission to TJ might boost TC Williams' scores, whereas ACPS currently is losing entire families to Arlington, Fairfax and privates.       [/quote]

Your mistake is in thinking that ACPS cares about that. It doesn't. [/quote]

I'm just articulating an argument that could be made.  I'm not assuming one way or the other whether or when it might succeed. [/quote]

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