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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

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It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools. [/quote]

Apparently better than you.  You might want to read up on their attributes. [/quote]

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools. 
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Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check) [/quote]

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.  :roll:

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right. 
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA. 
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school? 
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Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS.  Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends  worked so hard to overturn.  Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

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FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.  :roll: 
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So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.  [/quote]

PP was full of sh1t. No facts. 
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