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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This area has plenty of kids who can do the math and also write well, so TJ does not need to take kids who can only "do the math." Why take a kid who is great at math but doesn't write well when you can accept kids who are great at math and also have great writing skills?
Some of the kids who have needed math help are kids who have had tutoring for years to help with them do well in school.
And TJ kids are not in "remedial math", some 9th graders are getting extra help with Algebra II, a course that is normally taken by 11th graders.[/quote]

Sorry, TJ is a school for science and tech...not literature.

Forget your argument about a course normally taken by 11th graders.  Many kids at TJ don't need remedial math, and those who do should get booted.[/quote]

No argument, just fact. [b]No one at TJ is in remedial math[/b]. Roughly 15% of the last two freshman classes have been required to spend part of their activity period time getting help with Algebra II. The math teachers only started last year formally requiring freshman to get help early in the year.
TJ doesn't keep track (as far as I know), but lots of kids there have been getting outside help after school and on weekends for years before HS, so this doesn't seem all that different.

A requirement of staying at TJ is to keep a GPA over 3.0.

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Sorry, the seven TJ teachers and director of admissions who wrote the FCPS School Board last year beg to differ:

In a letter to the Fairfax County School Board and TJ Admissions Director Tanisha Holland, seven teachers recommended the admissions test be made more rigorous and that teacher recommendations be given more weight in the selection process, given that "one-third of our freshman class is at risk and has been [b]recommended for remediation in math and/or science[/b]."
 
"Simply put, these students are not succeeding, and [b]many are not succeeding in spite of the tremendous support and remediation being offered to them by their teachers[/b]," they wrote. "We are concerned that serious damage is being done to these students, their self-esteem, and their sense of academic efficacy due to their placement at our school."

the full article is here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/623696[/quote]

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