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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ONLY for the class of 2025 the bonus points given for experience factors was way too high, after that the FARMS rate dropped from 20% to 10% or lower.  If you look at the actual students enrolled at TJ I believe there were 2 language learners in the school out of the more than 2,000 kids.

Class of 2026 and later (especially since Mukai took over) will have better college results. Students are being sent back to their base schools even after 11th grade if they don’t have the minimum required GPA. The school fills the slots with very qualified 10th graders.[/quote]

Free/reduced lunch:

Class of 2025:25.09%
Class of 2026: 20.73%
Class of 2027: 11.64%
Class of 2028: 16.36%
Class of 2029: 10.5%

The class of 2025 had 13 special education kids and 39 English language learners.  https://www.fcag.org/TJHSSTClassof2025AdmissionsPressRelease.pdf

The fact that there are only 2 actual english language learners should tip you off about whether these kids that put english language learner on their application were actually english language learners.
Same with special ed and free lunch.

I think Mukai deserves a chance but ultimately we have to plug the hole.  He is letting kids return to their base schools and backfilling with high quality froshmores, like 50 of them.  But when you are replacing 10% or more of your students because they are flunking out after their freshman year, perhaps your admissions process needs to be adjusted.

Just fiddling with the dials on the various preferences is not going to fix this.  Those dials shouldn't exist.  If you are not prepared for TJ by 8th grade, even very smart kids will have a hard time catching up at an exceedingly competitive high school like TJ.  My kid took algebra 2 in 9th and it was pretty clear that a lot (not all, but a lot) of the kids taking pre-calc or calculus in 9th grade were qualitatively better at math and it was a long hard struggle to catch up with the calculus kids because they're not standing still.  The whole school is built for and geared towards those kids.  TJ is not geared towards the back of the pack like other public high schools.  [/quote]

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