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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son told me that one of his friends was told he would be sent back to base school if his grades don’t go up (currently has a D in 2 classes). The sooner students are sent back to their base school the better for them. They can bring their grades back up at their base school and get on track for better college outcomes.

I’m sure when the admission changes were made they expected this would happen and increased the class size from about 480 to 550 to account for more students going back to base schools.
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I support most of the changes but also agree that if a kid is getting multiple Ds by half way through 9th then TJ is not for them and going back to base sooner rather than later is best for that kid. [/quote]

This is what I tried to push last year when I had students that were failing most of their classes after the first semester, but Mukai kept moving the goal posts and dragging his feet [/quote]

Can you put in plain terms what exactly you pushed for and what is his latest goal post and what are the differences?  Otherwise statements like this are subjective and vague and hard for parents to understand.  [/quote]

I don't know how much plainer I can be. The 3.0 standard is not being consistently enforced for every student, period. It all depends on how vocal the parents are. Some students are dropped at the end of the quarter or semester, others drag it out until the end of the year, despite failing multiple classes. Mukai moves the goalposts based on how much parents complain. There seems to be no logic. For example, he told several 11th graders that they had to meet a certain requirement last year to remain at TJ. They met that requirement, only for Mukai to change the requirement without warning and dismiss them back to their base school. [/quote]

Wow. Getting sent back in 11th is very harsh. [/quote]

This happened to around a dozen 11th graders last year. A senior was sent back after just a few weeks this year. [/quote]

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