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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. One time I taught a truly special kid. Perfect recall. The only thing she got wrong all year was repeating a mistake I had made and later corrected. Kids like that really need TJ. [/quote]

Lame.

You had one kid like that one time. TJ isn’t there for one kid.

TJ lottery all the way![/quote]

You misunderstood. If each high school got two slots to nominate (which I believe is the plan) , it ensures that the profoundly gifted kids get through. They really need it.[/quote]

[b]I think those “profoundly gifted” spots will be passed out to someone who’s Mommy or Daddy is on the middle school PTA. 
Not the kid who’s actually profoundly gifted. [/b]
I have a kid who is and is thriving at TJ. All kids needed time to grow up while taking classes that challenged each kid. Just because my kid has a very high IQ, doesn’t mean they don’t need to learn the life skills of struggling in a class on their level: how to study, not procrastinating, ect.
However, my kid isn’t a social butterfly and I didn’t volunteer for things that would have gotten me in front of the principal. 
I’m so glad kid got in under the old system. 
No we aren’t Asian. [/quote]

+1. FCPS should watch who gets nominated for these spots closely.[/quote]

No one gets nominated for anything by the school. The evaluations take place within the Admissions Office.

There also isn't any way to determine who is and is not a student occupying an allocated seat. Nearly all of the schools that TJ draws from have allocated seat totals that are smaller than the reporting threshold. So for example, if Stone Middle School has only 6 seats allocated to them, and they have six or fewer students, that number will be listed as "TS" - too small to report. It'll still be "TS" if the number is 9. And if it's, say, 13, because they got some unallocated seats as well, there's no way to know which of those 13 kids received an allocated seat and which ones didn't.[/quote]

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