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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The actual answer to the question is that TJ, as a governor’s school, gets a financial supplement from the state per kid to offset the extra costs associated with educating a kid at TJ. And the state legislature sets the number of kids they are willing to pay a supplement for. Last time I checked, TJ still accepted more kids than the state reimburses for, and FCPS eats the added cost. To add even more kids above that, you need a bigger TJ budget.

Plus, even with the renovation, they only have so much space for the TJ specific mandatory classes, like Design Tech and Senior labs. And research labs and design tech are not classes you can safely or effectively add extra students to. History?  Yes. Specialized microelectronics research?  Not so much.

But I have a feeling Op was not looking for an actual answer.
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I’m interested in the uptick in TJ is the root of all evil posts in February. Usually there is a spate of these posts after decisions are released in April. Were there an unusually large number of surprising first round cuts this year  pwith the new test?  Or do parents have the sense their kid bombed the SiS? [/b] [/quote]

The current 8th grade class is the same bloated AAP year group that had the big test cheating scandal resulting in crazy amounts of kids being selected for AAP.

I am sure there is some correlation with what you are observing.  Maybe you are hearing from people who just realized how much more difficult it is to cheat into TJ?[/quote]

And I am not a TJ parent.

I am just annoyed by the "if my kid doesn't get the something special than no kid should get something special" crowd.[/quote]

Yeah, what were they thinking when they came up with that silly “equal protection” clause?  [/quote]

I love it when people who aren’t lawyers try to play lawyers on TV.

You kid has the same opportunity to apply to TJ as any other kid. That’s the equal protection. [/quote]

Ever heard of disparate impact?

TJ will be shut down eventually.  It's only a question of when. [/quote]

That isn’t how disparate impact works either.  Give up while you are behind.

And having TJ turn out the NMSFs and SAT scores and Siemens winners and Regeneron winners makes FCPS look great, and is an incentive for tech companies to land in Fairfax County. Every once in a while, the school board tweaks admissions practices. No one serious wants to shut TJ down.  As long as TJ kids keep performing, the school board will leave TJ alone.

I always find it interesting that some parents are so bitter about TJ that they want to destroy the country’s best high school. Why not advocate for taking the parts of TJ that work really well, like IBET and 8th period and expand the to other FCPS high schools? [/quote]

The AAP screening and TJ admissions policies clearly disadvantage students who are not Asian or white, and relegate then to more crowded schools where they have access to fewer courses and resources.  It is a classic example of a disparate impact.

TJ has been around for a while and there have been plenty of opportunities to make the school more of a community resource or a laboratory for best practices that could be employed elsewhere. It doesn’t happen because TJ doesn’t want it to happen.  The school has become ever more insular over time and the goal of anyone who ever has authority over the school is to reinforce its exclusivity.

If we didn’t have TJ, we’d have many more schools receiving greater accolades, unless you think the TJ families will all take their marbles elsewhere. I don’t think that would happen, but it’s a risk well worth taking in exchange for the greater attention that other schools and communities would receive.[/quote]

+1000[/quote]

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