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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Favoring kids with more math acceleration for TJ just creates an academic enrichment arms race.

I know it’s hard for some posters to realize but this dynamic isn’t good for anyone. It’s not good for the wealthy or Asian kids to be pushed so hard. And it’s not good for the URMs that are completely shut out from the competition.

And you’re thinking “but my kid actually wants to spend 10 extra hours a week studying math”. Fine. But please consider how your kid being rewarded fir that in TJ admissions causes three other families to make their kid who doesn’t do the same.

Bottom line. TJ admissions should not be a competition. If a middle schooler is interested and her grades and test scores meet a certain requirement she should be just as qualified for admission as the so-called “wonder kids” in pre calculus and winning competitions. [/quote]

But what about the kids who are legitimately highly gifted in math?  The kids FCPS chooses to bump up a year or more who take Algebra in 5th or 6th grade aren’t there because their parents paid for prep.  Certain kids really do need TJ, since math at the base schools will be too easy for them, and they’ll run out of classes by 11th grade.

If you want to eliminate the math arms race, get rid of summer geometry.  Then, the kids in Algebra 2 or pre calc will just be the highly gifted and not the prepped.   [/quote]

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