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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just disband it in favor of school by school aap [/quote]

You don't seem to understand what TJ is or the specialized classes that it offers. There are classes that can only be offered at J because of the expense of the specific labs and lab material. They also require students complete a series of more advanced math classes earlier in their high school career in order to participate in the classes. My kid is going to attend SL for high school, it had to add a math class beyond Calculus when Fox Mill was redistricted to SL because there were more kids coming out of Fox Mill who were eligible for Algebra in 7th grade and 8th and completed the math classes offered at SL by their Junior or Senior year. There is no way that SL has the resources to provide TJ style classes to their advanced math students. First, there are not enough students to justify the classes. Second they are too expensive to run at the school. Schools like McLean and Langley might have the students to take those classes but the cost of the labs and materials is too expensive for those schools.

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The expensive labs is a great argument for why it should be an academy available to more students.  [/quote]

Bingo.  It's insane how so many self-styled progressives seem to be among those most in favor of limiting the number of kids with access to TJ classes because they are so invested in the idea of touting a rainbow coalition TJ as the county's top full-time school.  [/quote]

...it cannot be both an academy and a full-service high school, and the uniqueness of TJ even from an academic perspective is not limited to what is taught in the STEM classrooms.

You cannot simultaneously understand what TJ is, has been at its best, and should be in the future and advocate for it to be converted to an academy. Your better course of action is to advocate for the building of a second magnet STEM high school, likely in the western part of the county.[/quote]

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