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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we need to hear the other side. What is the experience for those kids who were the top math kid in their class, unlike the girl in the first profile who says she as not good math? What happened to those kids and how are they doing now?[/quote]

Probably the same as they’ve always done? [/quote]

What do you mean by that? Same as they have always done would mean they would be at TJ under the old admissions standards.[/quote]

Unless the top math kid at a middle school can’t write an essay then they are at TJ. 
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Why would you think that? The process is not designed to ensure that top math kids get admitted.[/quote]

Only the top kids who have exceptional essays and portraits - which include math. It’s just not the *only* thing they are looking for. [/quote]

FCPS is ahead of the game.  They are modeling future TJ graduates on Elon Musk - you have to be a provocateur, an expert at tweeting and creating a furor among other things.  Focusing on math is passé- totally old-fashioned.  Braband will soon author a book on the amazing pathway from essay writing to STEM success.

Call me old fashioned - but I’d rather be with the party that champions old fashioned values when it comes to STEM education (and it starts with M and is not a bad word)[/quote]

Success in STEM isn’t 100% math. There are also other important qualities.

- STEM person who’s taken more math & science than almost everyone here

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Nobody is saying it is 100% Math. But you cannot devalue math the way it has been done.

- STEM person who wrote the books you relied on growing up[/quote]

Dang. I’m old so you must be ancient.  :lol:

STEM is more than “focusing on math”. 
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We can agree that STEM is more than “focusing on math”.  We can also agree that essay-writing should have less emphasis than Math in demonstrating STEM aptitude.

Perhaps we can meet up when the Eagles are playing in town.  😉[/quote]

I’ll put the pink champagne on ice. ;)

In addition to the profile & essay, I would support adding a math/science test component to the application. Ideally, a standardized test so kids could all have access to prep materials (not just those who pay to have unethical access to previous test questions on a supposedly confidential test).

Regardless of what happens with TJ admissions, the GOP will not help public education. On the contrary. They want to devalue and defund it.

I think all kids should have access to math and we should explore new ways to make it more accessible to everyone. 
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The old admissions process used a standardized math and science test!  This process eliminated the test in favor of extra points for demographics.[/quote]

Yes.  After folks were caught cheating by having access to the questions.  Not sure what the answer is, but I don't think you can say the "smartest" kids were getting in before when prep centers were literally giving kids the questions and answers in advance.  That's not intelligence.  It's cheating.[/quote]

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