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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who are saying kids run out of math classes - don't a lot of these kids start taking college level math NOVA at this point? I honestly don't know. Seems like the logical next step? [/quote]If NOVA at base schools was considered acceptable, TJ would have never existed in the first place. TJ academics are far more rigorous than NoVA courses of the same level.[/quote]

TJHSST exists in the first place because (1) otherwise one of the three high schools in that general area  - Annandale, Jefferson, or Stuart - would have been closed due to declining enrollments in the mid-80s; and (2) county officials, mostly Republican at the time, thought a STEM-oriented high school would help market Fairfax County to West Coast defense contractors looking to establish an East Coast presence in the Reagan era.

It wasn't created to meet a particular educational need, or because NOVA couldn't offer college-level math courses.  You can argue TJHSST became something else over time, but it wasn't created originally because math classes at base high schools or NOVA were deemed lacking.

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