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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long has Jeremy Shurtgart been the head of TJ Admissions?  Is this his first year and can be chalked up to not understanding the special meals process the patient two years, how some NVa parents act?

I really do not understand how this happened and want to give staff the benefit of the doubt.  It just seems like such a careless/stupid error. [/quote]

About ten years, I believe.[/quote]

This doesn't bode well,  [i]“It's pretty clear that this is just another component of the long-term GOP program to carve off chunks of the public good for private profit,” said Hayes, the President of the TJ Alumni Action Group. “The Coalition for TJ has long been advocating strictly for the interests of the test prep industry in Northern Virginia. Two other appointees are both advocates for charter schools and for-profit schools as well. It's so nakedly corrupt. It's repugnant. Schools are for education, not for profit.”[/i][/quote]

This is BS of course. Pure dog whistle. Not true.

Otherwise sensible people got so political that it became either

Public Schools = Good & Charter Schools = Bad

Public Schools = Bad & Charter Schools = Good

The truth is somewhat in between. Public schools can be very cost effective and deliver high quality education but as with any bureaucratic quasi government entity they have a tendency to become inefficient over time. Hence a dose of competition in the form of charter schools would be helpful.

So something like 80-90% public schools and 10-20% charter schools in a county would likely lead to better outcomes.

During Covid for example, the issue of online vs. in-person is a difficult decision. Having both public and charter in a region would have led the schools to be more responsive to actual student needs. [/quote]

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