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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure that pointing to the option school model in APS is very relevant to the problems created or exacerbated by TJ.  It's hardly a lottery school; rather, it's an invitation-only school that has very skewed admissions practices.

In addition, the option schools in APS educate kids in APS, not a whole host of other jurisdictions.  So they don't take seats that otherwise might be available to other APS students.  They simply reallocate them differently within APS.  In contrast, TJ's operation as a regional magnet in a county with multiple overcrowded schools makes the overcrowding at other schools within FCPS worse.

And the very TJ parents who otherwise might play a role in addressing those problems throw up their hands, profess indifference to the impact on other schools and students, and insist vehemently that their kids should continue to get a better deal than everyone else.  Absolutely revolting.  [/quote]

I think the total number of non-FCPS kids at TJ is less than 500.  So that means that even if all of those kids disappeared from TJ, you would be adding a total of about 20 kids per high school over the whole system.  Its just not a large amount of kids, relative to the size of FCPS.  And those other jurisdictions pay money to FCPS (not to mention the money received from the state because of its status as a Governor's School).  Sure TJ's existence creates some negative impacts on some students, but closing TJ would simply mean that different students would suffer different negative impacts.  What makes the FCPS kids at TJ less important than kids at other schools?[/quote]

Flawed analysis.

If TJ's enrollment wasn't capped because it's currently a Governor's school, the enrollment there could be greater than it is today, so it open up substantially more than 500 seats.  That, in turn, would both relieve overcrowding at other schools and save money.  And we all know that TJ kids are treated more importantly than kids anywhere else in FCPS and that returning TJ to its original use as a neighborhood high school means those kids might be treated equally for a change.  Which is unacceptable to the TJ parents who keep coming up with bogus arguments to justify the preferential treatment their kids are receiving at the expense of other students.  [/quote]

So what would you suggest replace gifted education?  Or are we also going to get rid of the other end of the spectrum (special ed) bc everyone should get exactly the same education?
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