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[quote=Anonymous]See, this is what I hate about FCPS.  People want to take something world class, like TJ, and dismantle it because their kid doesn’t benefit.

It seems  like a much better idea is taking the parts of TJ that are really exceptional, and finding ways to bring them to the base schools.

For example:

8th period is a really amazing part of TJ. Embedded extracurriculars, plus opportunities for students to meet independent with teachers.  Why not not have base schools apply for a pilot program to expand the 8th period idea to more schools, in a way that meets the need of their school communities. Mt. Vernon might offer intensive remediation, free teacher lead SAT prep, extra hand holding during college admissions for URMs, and enrichment/ academic teams, etc for the top students.  Whereas Langley might chose a model closer to TJs.

Why not give base school kids the option of taking integrated classes, along the lines of IBET, CHUM, HUM2, Senior Seminar?

Why not give base school kids the option of getting a diploma that is more rigorous than the advanced diploma?

Why not set up a program to let base school kids apply to come to TJ and do a senior research project in one of TJs research labs, either independly, or as a member of one of the TJ student research teams?

Why not have TJ teachers teach some of TJ’s advanced STEM classes, like the post AP CS and post multi/linear classes,  to base school kids via a virtual classroom arrangement?

Why not let base school kids apply to join some of TJ’s unique STEM extracurricular opportunities— for example, apply to be a member of the CubeSat team.

There are lots of ways that the successful parts of the TJ model could be adopted by base school.  And lots of ways Kids with an interest in STEm could have a “normal” high school experience while also doing advanced work or research in a specific area of interest in conjunction with TJ. Think bigger, not smaller. [/quote]

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