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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are all crazy. A 4% drop in the number of students in the top 97% of students in the County has you foaming at the mouth.

TJ is a public school that should be available to all the MSs in the County, that includes schools with a high poverty level and ELL level. There are smart kids at those schools who have not had the same exposure to math and science as kids from high SES schools. They deserve a chance to be exposed to classes that move at a faster pace and push them just like the kids from higher SES schools. They might not score as high on the SAT but they are better off for being in a school that pushes them and challenges them. They might earn C’s and B’s at TJ but being surrounded by highly motivated peers is a good thing for kids who have never had that type of exposure.

Not every kid at TJ needs to be the same with the same goals. Adding in kids from Poe and Stone and giving them a chance to work with kids who are bright and motivated who have had more exposure to STEM from Carson, Longfellow, Cooper, and Rocky Run is good for those kids. It is challenging them in a different way. They might only score in the 90th percentile on the SAT but they are learning so much more than they would at their base school.

They are smart and gifted, they have not had the same opportunities to explore these fields. Does it show in their grades at TJ and on the SAT? Sure. Are they failures because they are not in the 97th percentile? No. [b]Historically the vast majority of kids at TJ were not in the commended group[/b] or the Semi-Finalists based on SAT scores. So now there are a few more kids in that category. TJ still has far more kids in that catagory than any other school in FCPS. McLean, Langley, and Oakton have a few more kids that are the 97th percentile, good for them.

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Historically the vast majority of kids at TJ were in the commended group.

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