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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Vocational" machine learning?  First time I've heard that is a thing. I'd be pretty thrilled for my teen to get ML skills, whatever you want to call it. For the record, it's mostly high level math and stats.

I'll speak for myself, I see TJ as a STEM school and not a "upscaled peers" school. The only kid we considered it for was my STEM kid (all kids were high achieving and could have been admitted) but its just too far. With AP classes, many FCPS schools can provide a comparable advanced education.

So I think Western could absolutely pull from TJ.  TJ is a great STEM school, no doubt, but it's also VERY hard to get into top schools from there due to the peer group (they only want so many from a specific school) and it's social life crushing far away.  Even a limited STEM/AI/AE/ML track would appeal to people who want that but don't want the commute.  It appeals to me and my 8th grader.

Chantilly has the academy and that was also nice to have some additional technical programming. [b]I see this as a more focused academy, which is broad based.[/b]
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