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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McLean high school has a group of highly advanced students who are without a CS teacher.  Why don’t they just bus those kids to TJ? Or bring the teachers to the different schools?  I know this is an issue at Langley.  There are students at these high schools who are maxing out on what is offered at their local high school.  As someone who is somewhat new to the area, it seems very silly to limit access to senior year classes based on what the child did in 7th grade.  Why not open the opportunity up? [/quote]

That’s part of a broader discussion about whether TJ would function better as [b]a full-time academy offering only courses available nowhere else to more students[/b] (who would otherwise remain as a base school) than as a full/time school.

Suffice it to say that there’s no interest among FCPS leadership in doing anything other than what TJ is currently doing, which is expanding its class sizes (to about 550 kids per grade vs. 475) and allocating seats more widely across the participating jurisdictions.

The fact that Langley or McLean students may not have a teacher for a course or a desired course may not be available isn’t going to be treated any differently than, say, an elementary school elsewhere in the county without a PE or music teacher. Sorry. [/quote]

LoCo is welcome to their Academies.  Why would FCPS want to dismantle TJ to create another one of those?[/quote]

It wouldn’t dismantle TJ, but would allow more students access to the classes only offered at TJ.  Academies help expand the access to educational opportunities.  It’s a way to “grow the pie” so to speak.  You can double the size of the students who have access to advanced classes.  And allow students to still be part of their base community.

Do any of the candidates for SB have this as one of their agenda items?

And I can see why McLean parents whose kids don’t have a CS teacher are annoyed at a crowd of TJ kids who have an excess of CS teachers are blocking traffic every morning.  It’s only natural.  [/quote]

This has been discussed on other threads.  Moving to academy format is not feasible.[/quote]

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