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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interest in TJ is waning.  There were 3034 applications for the Class of 2025, but only 2544 for the Class of 2026, and this decline was [b]BEFORE[/b] the latest debacle relating to the FARMS status of applicants.

Really, if FCPS wanted to destroy the TJ brand, they could not have done a better job:

* Trash TJ parents and students publicly as toxic, test-prepped, wealthy cheats engaged in a "pay-to-play" scam;

* Make changes to the admissions process that weren't adequately vetted or fully understood by the School Board members voting to approve them;

* Host venues for warring factions of TJ parents to insult each other at PTA meetings;

* Prompt a federal judge to deem the admissions changes in violation of the Constitution;

* Allow a group of math teachers to call out collectively the students in the Math 4 sequence as a bunch of low-performing slackers with poor study habits;

* Leave families hanging as to whether kids admitted to the Class of 2026 might have their offers rescinded; and

* Inconvenience administrators at every other high school in the county by potentially requiring them to take on additional students they'd previously understood would be attending TJ.

TJ is now a sad shell of what it used to be and its tattered reputation seems unlikely to improve any time soon.  [/quote]

Good intentions leading to ruin or envy-driven spitefulness, we'll never know. [/quote]

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