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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best part is in the email they  had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.

You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

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It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April.  You and your #fakenews[/quote]

It was #5 using data from [u]before[/u] the admissions change. 
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And rank #20 in some year in the past.[/quote]
No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6.  TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year. [/quote]

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10 
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term) 
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process) 
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The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.[/quote]
Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal. [/quote]

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school![/quote]

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions.  FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.  [/quote]
Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions[b] when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. [/b]The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.  [/quote]

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; [b]applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school [/b]l;  "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade.  While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.[/quote]
That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.[/quote]
Similar to how making the SAT optional has hurt UMRs more than any other group, leading to its reinstatement, TJ has no choice but to bring back the test in order to admit qualified students and navigate its way out of the current mess.[/quote]

Or at least limit enrollment to the right kind of student i.e. those who can afford to purchase the test answers! :D[/quote]

If that were really the standard, TJ would be overwhelmingly white.  Because the affluent families in FCPS are overwhelmingly white.[/quote]

"Overwhelmingly" is a bit of a stretch. And not all parents paying for the expensive prep are in FCPS. 
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