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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now watch them get rejected from TJ. [/quote]

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.[/quote]

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.[/quote]

Don't the high schools that Longfellow and Carson feed into ALSO offer dual enrollment post-AP math courses through George Mason, the exact same track TJ offers?[/quote]

No.  TJ has special dual enrollment courses beyond multivariable and linear algebra only offered at TJ.  If these kids are taking pre-calc or calc in 8th, they will run out of math classes at McLean, even with dual enrollment.  Likewise, if they're physics oriented, their offerings will cap at AP Physics C, rather than the many post-AP classes offered at TJ.

The argument that "those kids will be fine anywhere" is absurd.  TJ is made for kids who have academic needs that can't be met at their base school.  These kids need TJ and its expanded offerings.  Whether or not TJ would make a huge difference for an underprivileged child is irrelevant.  These kids aren't competing for spots against kids at lower SES schools.  They're competing against the other privileged but much less advanced and much less accomplished kids at Longfellow and Carson.  
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