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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not grade inflation.  Langley - 20% of the class has 4.5 weighted.  TJ - maybe 3 kids get that ... [b]when TJ kids have had about 10 more AP or post-AP classes than the average Langley kid[/b].  Just saying .... B-, B, even C - common grade at TJ -- on the report card.  [/quote]

Wow, 10 more AP classes than Langley students means even PE at TJ must be AP...because I know kids at base schools who are on track to take 15 AP or post-APs by the time they finish.
Gee, if they're so advanced, how is it that Langley has beaten them twice in the last three years at SO, without any of the amazing TJ resources and advanced curriculum at their disposal?
How is it that a good number of TJ kids don't score pass advanced on their math and science SOLs, which are  minimum proficiency exams?
http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:18:::NO::P0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:300,0
(This is where you say, "they're too busy doing far more advanced things to care about extracurriculars or SOLs").

At base schools, a grade is a grade. I don't know of any classes that curve to begin with, let alone where only the bottom 5% (two standard deviations below the mean?) end up with a D or below as a result of the curve, which is what was claimed on this thread or its predecessor.

Ridiculous statements like the above are going to get you flamed with facts every time.[/quote]

The curve is to 71%. A D-   So, 50% of kids get a D- or F.  Half. Not 5%.

And TJ isn’t the base school. It’s math department routinely gives test that most kids are incapable of finishing and incapable of getting an A on, on points. The curves on some form of B. That is how the choose to challenge the .01% of math kids in FCPS. The math geniuses, even by TJ standards.  It is also how math departments at may colleges operate. And in many ways— from academic expectations to no bells to you can eat lunch anywhere in the building you want, TJ operates more like college than HS. [/quote]

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