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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be nice if Mukai shared this vision with his staff as well.[/quote]

He does.  None of this is a secret.

What some teachers are salty about is that he isn't Bonitatibus and doesn't care that much about what the skin color of the graduating class looks like.
He lets kids return to their base school without trying to convince them to stick it out and backfills with froshmores.  So the graduating class looks a bit different than the incoming classes but he isn't trying to change the admissions process either.

The faculty overwhelmingly wants TJ to be filled with excellent students and that is why you see a froshmore admission process that selects for merit.  And some teachers at TJ are mad about it.[/quote]

Ok, what is his vision then? Because just slapping AP on every course is not a vision.[/quote]

I don't know but I bet the teachers do.  Based on the zoom calls it looks like he is doing more than slapping an AP label on a bunch of classes.  
That is just the highly visible low hanging fruit.

He is partnering with the parents.  We both have a vested interest in seeing TJ produce excellent students and excellent college results.
I don't know if he is going to start counseling underperforming kids to go back to their base school but he is not following the previous principal's practice of trying to get kids to stay [most likely in an effort to preserve diversity].
He is aggressively backfilling those spots with froshmores.  
I don't think he is pushing for a change in the admissions process but he is reshaping the class where he can to make it align with its core mission as a school for academically advanced kids.

Based on the quality of students at TJ, the college results are sub par and he intends to remedy that.  Part of it is getting credit for the work you are doing by doing things like changing honors pre-calc to AP pre-calc.  Party of it is a more active college counseling office (the number of emails from the college and career specialist has been much higher this year).  [/quote]

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