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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats to your child at RM !!! The number one school ahead of TJ!!![/quote]
I honestly don't really care that much, but it's pure pretzel logic to ignore the fact that TJ is the number one school in the country and has roughly four times as many NMSF as RM.

All you have done is convince me that people in the [b]magnet program at RM view themselves as totally  separate from the rest of the school, which leads me to conclude they are likely despised by the other RM parents and students.[/b][/quote]

no worse than tj parents view themselves totally separate from other fcps schools. [/quote]

[b]Maybe, but TJ is actually ranked as number 1 high school in the country whereas RM IB is not[/b].[/quote]

What good is ranking if they are out performed by small "no name" programs? Beaten by RM AND Blair. I'd take substance over ranking any day.  [/quote]

You don't have to choose.  You can take substance and ranking

TJ, where does all this crap about being #1 come from anyway?

For the second year in a row, according to US NEWS & World Report, some school I have never heard of was ranked #1,[b] BASIS Scottsdale was ranked #2, AND TJ was ranked #3, moving up one place from the previous year.............when it was ranked #4 of the best high public high schools in America.[/b]

[i]I would love to hear the explanation from TJ parents of how long ago and where they were #1...in the country[/i]

PS [b]to the TJ parents who keep hassling the BASIS parents on the DC public and charter school board (which you have no place on anyway), BASIS DC offers "a rigorous liberal arts education," we are NOT a STEM school, so could you stop comparing us to TJ?  We also, like every other DC Charter, admit by lottery, and given that we did rank #3 on the DC CAS our first year and #2 our next year, the last year of the DC CAS, before our demographics had changed much - second only to Deal - the "best" public middle school in DC" when we were a Title I school (meaning more than 40% of our students qualified for free and reduced meals), which most people say cannot be done, especially not in two years.  THOSE scores in my opinion are much more of an accomplishment (and having 44% of our students score advanced in math that year)[/b]

than having rigorous admission tests for 9th grade, and continuing to pile on the pressure, not understanding percentages well enough to understand the point these other parents are making, shitting all over a start up school in Washington DC that has had real problems balancing the laws on IEPs versus their requirements that all students pass comprehensive exams in order to be promoted to the next grade, whose mission states very clearly it is not a STEM school.  [b]We are highly unlikely to have a single NMSF next year because we are only going to have 20 12th graders (if that) in our first graduating class.  The fact that some TJ parents feel sufficiently insecure to jump the message board fence to take pot shots at us says a lot more about TJ than BASIS DC. [/b] It may say a lot about Wilson high school and DCPS that they were the only public high school here to have any NMSF's and out of almost 2,000 kids they had two, but measuring us next year when that wonderful class started in 8th (and we traditionally start in 5th) would be very unfair, especially since we apparently have the highest cutoff in the nation?.  Thank you.

Someday I do hope we can give TJ a run for it's money.  But that day is a long way off.[/quote]

TJ was ranked number 1 last year(2014) and again this year (2015) by Newsweek.

TJ was ranked number 1 by USNWR staring around 2008 to about 2012.

TJ was also ranked best (smartest) high school by Business Insider.

TJ was also ranked as having the highest SAT score in the country by Huffing ton Post in 2014.[/quote]

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