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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BPLQKV69B096/$file/FCPS%20final%20report%2005.05.20.pdf

Take a look at recommendation number five in the report:

“ Change perceptions that the path to academic success only runs through the Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology. A major motivating factor for parent over-involvement in the AAP identification process is the perception that future academic (and life) success is primarily attainable via attendance at the division’s selective high school, and that learning in a Level IV center is highly predictive of admission to the high school. Many talented students attend other FCPS high schools and go on to achieve admission to prestigious universities and success in life. Sharing those stories more widely and enthusiastically may help counter the current perceptions of the selective high school as the only path for families wanting their talented child to be prepared for college and workforce success.

Further, a school division the size of FCPS can support multiple selective high schools, lessening the parent focus on selection for the Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology High School of Science and Technology. For example, each region could have a selective high school and/or selective high schools could be created with a range of disciplinary foci (e.g., medical science, government and international studies, performing and visual arts). Other large districts (e.g., Boston) have multiple selective high schools and have had success recently in diversifying their student populations.”

Multiple selective high schools in FCPS could relieve some of the zero sum approach advocated here. [/quote]

What a load of BS.  Balkanizng FCPS even further with more magnets will only further segregate an already deeply segregated system.  They need to get rid of TJ and restore it to use as a community school.[/quote]

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