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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The job of TJ is to teach kids.  Your basic point is that kids who have allegedly shown themselves to be adept in math (or whatever) should not be provided any programs specifically designed to cater to this ability.  However, if a kid is adept in basketball, they do deserve such a program.  Apparently winning basketball games is more important for you guys than providing supplemental education for students demonstrating proficiency.  That says a lot about you, doesn't it?[/quote]

[b]The new admission policy ensures that more kids who need this enrichment get it whereas the old system only ensured kids who already got outside enrichment got it from the school too. This seems like a great and necessary change.[/b][/quote]

BINGO[/quote]

+1  This right here is the heart of the change.  You can argue for or against it.  But kudos to the above poster for articulating the change.  [/quote][/quote]

There's no way around it. The people who want to cling to the old system mostly just want to be able to guarantee their kids will get in if they take a couple prep classes. These changes make it a lot harder and give bright kids in less affluent a fair chance.

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The "prep" lady is lying again. The old system is race neutral. The new one is racist. [b]Everyone can "prep", aka studying.[/b] Studying is the least expensive thing to do. If it were so easy to ace SAT by just taking a couple prep classes, white parents wouldn't have paid tens of thousands to have someone else take SAT for their kids.[/quote]

Make your kids study all you want.  It just cannot be a requisite for the county stem high school. When the county makes this process fair and truly race neutral the admissions exam will test content taught through algebra I. More kids will qualify, and they’ll use a lottery to select kids equally across the county. Like another poster said, the earth will not stop spinning. TJ will still be a STEM magnet high school. [/quote]

It really should be. Because guess what they are going to be doing until 1 am every morning once they get there?   Think hard. It will come to you. [/quote]

So be it. Presumably the kid is up for a challenge.

I get that it was easier to get your kids into TJ in years past. Now there is even more competition for seats. [/quote]

No. Now there is no competition in the real sense of the word for seats, because all you need to do is fill out an application and have a pulse and a sob story. I’m sorry “experience factors”.  There may be a smaller likelihood of getting a seat. But since admission is not longer merit based,  it just another HS with a long commute and getting a seat means nothing.

I’m glad my last kid graduates from FCPS this year. There’s a lot of pride that comes with working hard and struggling some to achieve a goal.  My TJ grads diploma means something to him. Being handed something because your MS is crappy?   It makes the TJ diploma from 2025 forward worthless. [/quote]

If there is a crappy middle school, it is a reflection on the school district, not the student.  And it's incumbent on them to fix it.[/quote]

The schools are more or less the same. The difference is how much the parents in these areas invest in outside enrichemnt.[/quote]

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