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My kid does activities that he enjoys, Scouts, sports, math competitions, because he likes them. If they help him get into a school like TJ, awesome. If they don't but he enjoyed them while he was doing them, great. TJ or an amazing college down the line, would be a wonderful bonus. But he is doing what he is doing because he enjoys it and it is a part of who he is as a person not because he is trying to build a resume. [/quote]

Why are you even opining on the TJ threads when your kid is only a 4th grader?  You have zero understanding of what it takes to excel in 7th and 8th grade STEM extracurriculars, just how much students can push themselves and avail themselves of resources, and what it even means when some of these kids are qualifying for JMO in 8th, making Mathcounts nationals top 12 in 8th, or winning national Science Olympiad awards.  You don't have experience in middle school AAP coursework, middle school math tracks, or much of anything in FCPS middle schools.  You're embarrassing yourself by even thinking that you have anything valuable to contribute in these threads.  [/quote]

Are the only people allowed to have opinion people who you think are allowed to have opinions?[/quote]
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No.  The only people allowed to have opinions are those who have the faintest clue what they're talking about.  PP is like someone with a 5 year old in rec league sports who is insisting that she has no interest in middle school travel league, but will spout out at any opportunity about how travel league should work.  It's truly embarrassing.

It should be pretty telling that one of the largest proponents of the new system who feels the need to fill every thread with her opinions has an oldest child who is a 4th grader and isn't particularly interested in TJ.  [/quote]

I suppose I could discuss my nieces and nephews, who range from 4-25, or my kids friends or the kids I know from programs I volunteer with or the hundreds of adults I taught at the University. I can’t talk to their personal motivations for their activities of choice since I don’t have the same experience with them as I do my own kid.

Maybe you should realize that plenty of people have a good idea about the motivation of kids and parents even if their exact child is not in 8th grade.

It is possible to appreciate the hard work and effort that kids at the top of their peer group is in school or in extra curricular activities AND see that there is a good reason to make a public magnet school available to kids from across the entire county regardless of their ability to participate in extra curricular activities. Not every child, even smart ones who are capable of doing well at TJ, has the same ability to access activities outside of school. Or have the money to afford activities. Or have the time to participate.

I think that having admissions to a public magnet school based on a set of classes that are available to all students in the County is fair. I think that the math requirement should be higher, I think the kids should have completed Geometry.

I would love for there to be a second school like TJ. I would love for their to be an Arts equivalent to TJ in the County. I think that there are a lot of kids who would benefit from such programs.

But I don’t think that it is fair to effectively bar kids from entry to TJ because they have not had the knowledge of, time, or money to participate in extra curricular activities. I would hope that the highly motivated kids who are excelling in such programs are gaining from their participation even if they don’t attend TJ.

I also know, from my time teaching College students, that these kids are likely to do great in College even if they attend their base school. It is a shame that they will not gain from the special classes and programs at a school like TJ but they have the skills and motivation to do well without those classes.

But you can happily brush aside my opinion because my kid is younger and we are not focused on TJ at the moment. Clearly I am not in a position to understand what is at stake. [/quote]

Can I brush aside your opinion because you randomly capitalize words that shouldn’t be capitalized? [/quote]

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