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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As of October 2017,  TJ was at 433 (Class of 2018), 429 (Class of 2019), 459 (Class of 2020) and 465 (Class of 2021).  Seems like there continues to be students leaving with their seats unfilled, and it's crazy that FCPS allows a school with fewer than 1800 students while other schools are bursting at the seams.

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Well, some kids drop, and should drop. Not because they can’t hack the academic most can. But because some kids just hate it. They can take in some froshmores— but that’s a tough road because off all they have missed freshman RS and DT, which aren’t offered at the base school. And getting all the classes you need in for the senior lab and extra diploma classes is tight even if yo start freshman year. After sophomore year, kids can technically transfer in if they have moved here and never applied. But it almost never happens.

Reality is that the TJ Curriculum is very different than the standard currrculum, and has a goal of a major senior research project, so requires RS, DT, and CS as extra classes the first two years, plus putting a 4th history somewhere, since it won’t fit in freshman year, etc., etc.  no matter how smart a kid is, you can’t fill seats junior and senior year with kids who are prepared for the junior and senior classes that are required. They lack the prerecs.[/quote]

In that case they should admit more freshmen.  It’s a travesty and waste of county resources that TJ has such small graduating classes.[/quote]

Kinda defeats the point of TJ. Every senior needs to do a large scale lab based research project senior year, many with lab based pre-Recs junior year. TJ class size is limited by lab space, freshman IBET design tech classrooms, etc. [/quote]

You mean they might have to share or coordinate, like kids at every other high school in the county?

I'm more and more convinced that TJ needs to be converted back to a neighborhood high school.  The sense of entitlement is completely off the charts. [/quote]

It's not happening so just get over it. Sorry your kid didn't get in.[/quote]

I wouldn’t be so sure about that.  [/quote]

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