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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it seems like a good pick. people seem really happy with WSHS so he must be doing a good job there and it seems positive he was a student at TJ back in the day.

I really really hope he continues Dr B’s effort to make the school less stressful for kids than it needs to be. I think that shift has been positive (from what I have heard of before vs what DD there has experienced) and that the kids put enough pressure on themselves already for all As and the hardest classes - the leadership doesn’t need to feed into that frenzy further. [/quote]

[b]nice try[/b]. if fcps was indifferent to the academic decline, they wouldnt be getting rid of Bonita.  Th new principal is being brought to change the current course and restore academic excellence.  The nonsensical days of convincing students to stay back at TJ and accept Cs and Ds in least rigor courses are coming to end.  [/quote]

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I'm not arguing about WHY Dr. B left or what FCPS wants from it. I also happen to agree it didn't do kids any favors to convince them to stay if they were getting Cs and Ds in multiple things Freshmen year. But i have a kid there now in junior year who's gotten all As so far (and started out in Math 3 so having done geometry already and therefore "middle of the pack" not behind in math). I have heard that in the past it was a much more stressful school environment than the atmosphere Dr B intentionally tried to cultivate. I think you can tweak some of the things that aren't working well without throwing out the effort to pay more attention to students' mental health at a highly competitive school. 
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I am very pro-testing but Bonitatibus did try to reduce stress, but I don't think the stress went down because of anything she did (unless you consider her role in the change in admission process).
The stress went down when the weaker students showed up to fill up the bottom half of the grading curve.
The A students weren't as stressed about getting good grades and the B students were stressed about trying to get As.  
The C students were having a hard time and i don't think they should have been encouraged to "gut it out" but their presence did alleviate the stress for the B students.
They can relax their grading posture so that these kids get the grade they would have gotten if they had stayed at their base schools.  This would make TJ much less stressful and more attractive to all students.

One of the biggest considerations made when accepting a offer to go to TJ is how it will affect your GPA.[/quote]

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