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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn’t they do the top 1.5% at the school you are attending? SOL scores for kids are attached to the school that they are attending. If you choose to move schools, you choose that as your school. That counts for everything.

You don’t have to choose to attend an AAP Center school. Parents knew this year that school choice mattered. Parents know for next year that the school matters. If you feel that the academic rigor is better at the AAP Center, then send your kid there. Appreciate that they are getting what you deem to be a better education. They probably have access to better extra curricular activities as well. If TJ is that important to you and you think you stand a better chance of getting into TJ coming from your base school, stay at the base school.

You have a choice, make your choice and accept that there are consequences for that choice. [/quote]

I mean, good grief... nearly half of the spaces in each incoming TJ class are unallocated, meaning that those spaces are up for grabs to the highest-evaluated applicants once you get away from the top 1.5% at each school. So you're not even competing with the best of the best for those unallocated seats. And that's even assuming that all of the allocated seats get used, which they don't. [/quote]

The more I read parents on this thread, the more convinced I am that their kids are really not THAT much different from the kids that they're trying to keep out of TJ by crying "racism".

TJ's been in session for a semester now with the Class of 2025. Where are the reports of huge numbers of students unable to cope? Where are the reports of the mass exodus of students who don't belong there? Where are the teachers talking about how they have to lower their standards to account for the lack of an exam in the admissions process? Where are the teachers talking about behavior issues that would have been eliminated with teacher recommendations?

Nothingburger.[/quote]

Person in charge of TJ (Principal) will not allow anything negative to get out regarding class of 2025. She was a rabid supporter of the changes and hostile to Asian students.[/quote]
Let’s report her divisiveness and hatred to the governor office. helpeducation@governor.virginia.gov
She needs to go.[/quote]

Back in 2011-2012, there were hundreds of news articles about how some TJ students were struggling in math. The media was all over it covering this for months including the WaPo and guess what the difference is between 2011 (class of 2015) and class of 2025? Could it be that TJ was mostly Asians and white (about 95%) and now black and Hispanic students make up almost 20%? [/quote]

Or could it be that the math classes are not as demanding or the grading is more lenient?  You do know that the approach to grading has become progressively more lenient since 2011.  First the scale changed, and later the policies making 50% the lowest grade for a test or assignment or ceasing to penalize students for turning in work late were adopted.  [/quote]

Another essentially unfalsifiable claim that turns into soft racism. If the present student body is doing just as well as previous students, that's evidence that standards must be lowered or that grading is more lenient because [b]of course[/b] Black and Hispanic kids can't do as well as [b]our[/b] kids! We try harder! We care more about school! We have the market cornered on effort in academics!

:roll: [/quote]

You actually haven't presented any evidence that the present student body is doing just as well as previous students.

You lose credibility when you come across as such a shill.  It appears all you care about is PR and want to declare success on the basis of very little evidence. [/quote]

That's because it's too early to make any assertions.

I have no idea if they're doing just as well, or worse, or whatever. But it's too early to make a call either way, and so the pre-emptive declarations of conspiracies are nonsense.

Give these kids a chance, is all I'm saying.[/quote]

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