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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While we are talking about this can we talk about how apparently the addition of intensified classes is creating a problem with Thomas Jefferson high school eligibility for Immersion and Montessori students?

Eligibility requirements for TJHSST has requirements that students be in honors classes in 8th grade for science/english/social studies and math. Immersion and Montessori students are not eligible for intensified science. I am actually not sure if Montessori students can access intensified reading or math because of how their program works.

[b]Right now Gunston is saying immersion and Montessori students will not be eligible to apply to TJ [/b]despite those programs not being made available to them. This is despite the fact that TJ's own website seems to suggest that students must be in the highest level of class available to them.

I know folks hate choice programs here, but it is a big risk for students to withdraw from either program with no guaranteed admission into TJ and no way to re-gain entry back into the choice program.

The school is supposedly working on it but no word as of yet. They were given a grace period for applicants this year.

I will also note that in HS immersion science is ONLY available as intensified (immersion students do not have an option to take non intensified science if they want science in Spanish). As of now, this same logic isn't being applied to 8th grade science.

Anyway, it is all kind of a mess right now for immersion and montessori students interested in TJ high school. [/quote]

Who at Gunston is saying that? That sounds mistaken. 
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