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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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TJ was created in 1995.
Clinton was president and we were working on that "peace dividend"
TJ was created as a governors school to address the needs of the gifted.

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You have your facts completely wrong.  It was opened in the mid-80s and very much tied to increased defense spending in the Reagan-Bush era.

Meeting the “needs of the gifted” was a secondary concern at the time.  
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Do you have any sort of support for the notion that TJ was opened to attract defense contractors?

How was TJ going to attract more defense contractors.

Where is the wiki history of governor's schools: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%27s_Schools_(Virginia)

And here is the Virginia Department of Education's description of the purpose of governor's schools:

[b]"The Virginia Governor's School Program has been designed to assist divisions as they meet the needs of a small population of students whose learning levels are remarkably different from their age-level peers. The foundation of the Virginia Governor's School Program centers on best practices in the field of gifted education and the presentation of advanced content to able learners."[/b]

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/specialized-instruction/governor-s-schools

I see nothing about defense contractors or Reagan.
Do you have a source for any of this or are we supposed to just trust you?[/quote]

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