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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After this year, the ranking drop will be a usual thing. Families will look for more serious academic options for their kids. FCPS can have fun with their DEi students. Nobody cares anymore.[/quote]

This is a relief.  Leave TJ to the STEM kids, not to children of parents who are trying to maximize their child's college app and eventual career.[/quote]

“STEM kids” who spend their hs in remedial math and never are a part of any STEM competitions lol[/quote]

Fortunately the students going to TJ are from the very top 1.5% of their schools so are all top notch.[/quote]

That’s not how it works.[/quote]

Yes only half the kids come from the top 1.5% of their school. The other half are the top kids in the county who weren't within he top 1.5% of their school. Regardless TJ only gets the cream of the crop.[/quote]

The kids who don't fall in the top 1.5% of their school most often come from wealthy feeders where parents can afford to invest more heavily in outside enrichment.  Many of the kids who aren't in the top 1.5% of Cooper or Longfellow may have higher stats than the very top kid at less affluent school. Nevertheless, TJ only gets the very best the county has to offer, and personally sometimes these kids who manage to do well without the outside enrichment are incredibly gifted and  benefit even more from what TJ has to offer. Kids from wealthy schools whose parents support them will be fine regardless, but for others this experience is life changing.[/quote]

Basically the 3rd tier preppers aren't getting in bacause high-performing kids from less affluent schools are taking their spots.[/quote]

You're wrong.  The 3rd tier preppers are still getting in.  They're displacing the academically elite kids from the higher SES schools.

I'm all for the 1.5% allocation per school.  The thing I'm against is making the application so sparse that they can't differentiate between the 3rd tier preppers and the highly gifted kids within any school.  [/quote]

I’m strongly pro-reform and I have this concern as well. I don’t think my concern is perhaps as severe as others, but I do worry that TJ isn’t getting the right kids from Carson, Longfellow, Cooper, Rocky Run, etc.[/quote]

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