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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ ain't gonna be shut down.  Ain't gonna happen.  So don't hold your breath on that.

While TJ is mostly Asian/White and most of the kids prepped (except for the kids of those posting on DCUM, of course) the kids and the parents go through a lot to get the kids there. Time/money spent driving to/from "enrichment" classes; driving to/from the drop-off bus stop, etc.

The simple solution is to dilute the effects of AAP and TJ on the school system.  How?  [b]Make all schools AAP. AAP should be opt-in at the subject level all the way through HS.  This would allow base HS to make TJ-level education available to everyone.  Eventually, TJ-specific interest will drop and local kids will start going there.[/b]

Funding is the issue of course.  Why not cancel bus services and have parents drop off and pick up the kids as TJ parents do today?  How many of you would sign up for that in return for a better quality education?  
Increase taxes - Any takers?[/quote]

I would support it and wish it were available now. Right now, my kid is not being sufficiently challenged (DC is in the area of not being at the tippy-top of scores but a very high achiever; DC gets the "regular" curriculum even though in some subjects DC would be able to work at a higher level). This approach would allow more of a focus on individual capabilities rather than the current cookie cutter approach in FCPS.

I'd be happy to drive and increase what I pay for it.

I don't have a huge issue with TJ other than I feel like none of my taxes should go to it if my kid gets no benefit from it (as another PP mentioned, the practices were supp'd to bleed out to the other schools but that clearly has not happened). It's a pretty isolated institution. That's what I don't like about it.[/quote]

TJ is paid for by a combination of state governors school funding and public-private partnerships/ donations. You don’t pay extra for it.  But even if you did, that’s the nature of public education. I don’t want my tax dollars to support you kid’s sports teams, but they do anyway.

And TJ isn’t an isolated institution. It’s faculty, staff, students, parents and alumni are all over the place doing all sorts of things. Volunteering at middle schools and elementray schools. Hosting educational conferences. Hosting STEM teacher training. Sponsoring science fairs and hackathons and community STEM days, hosting middle school and high school summer STEM institutes, competing in the same athletic conference as your kid, and at the same band competitions, and the same academic competitions.  Sending students to Udvar Hazy on weekends and during the summer for STEM programs. If your kid is struggling in FCPS math and you can’t afford a tutor, you can call the schools and they will find a student who will work with your kid.  They work with the Jack Kent Cook Foundation and the Department of State on STEM outreach.  The TJ community puts a lot of time and thought and energy into community outreach. [/quote]

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