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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best part is in the email they  had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.

You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

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It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April.  You and your #fakenews[/quote]

It was #5 using data from [u]before[/u] the admissions change. 
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And rank #20 in some year in the past.[/quote]
No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6.  TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year. [/quote]

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10 
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term) 
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process) 
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The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.[/quote]
Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal. [/quote]

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school![/quote]

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions.  FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.  [/quote]
Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions[b] when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. [/b]The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.  [/quote]

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; [b]applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school [/b]l;  "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade.  While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.[/quote]
So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students. [/quote]

Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.  [/quote]

DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders. 
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Not really, it should be accessible to "academically qualified" students not just any student.  The past four years has shown that kids who are being admitted based on non-academic factors are suffering with poor grades and/or returning to base school.  FCPS overwhelmingly wants academically affluent feeders to continue to thrive since that is were most of county's top STEM talent is nurtured.  This is similar to how FCPS encourages other athletically affluent feeders.    [/quote]

Can you substantiate these claims with any evidence? Didn't think so... The new process is selecting the very top students from the county instead of those who were able to afford elite prep and memorize the test answers. TJ is a much better place for it. [/quote]
DP There is no way to know if the very top students are being admitted because there is no single, objective metric that allows for comparison. They need to bring back standardized testing; then you can see students relative academic strengths and know if your statement is true. GPAs are subjective and are not fulfilling their screening purpose - witness the recent admission of students with 3.5+ GPAs who later fail their SOL exam(s) at TJ. Using standardized test results (ie SOLs, PSAT, or other) could have prevented those latter students from being set up to struggle at TJ.[/quote]

My understanding is the county has access to these metrics and uses them to identify the top students. [/quote]

What metrics?  Not the SOL.
One of the kids in our school that everyone thought would get in had 590+ in all their SOLs and they didn't get in.
They got an award for best geometry student from the teachers at graduation.[/quote]

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