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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does teaching at TJ differ from teaching at a base school? Would the teachers stay at a lottery TJ?[/quote]

STEM teaching is at a college /MIT level, even for honors (not AP/ Post AP) classes. My kid did standard honors physics (not AP C). Got a B.  Placed into third semester college physics at a pretty strong physics school. And still spent the first semester bored out of his mind and walking his problem set group of sophomores and juniors through the work.  Is now a sophomore physics TA, so it worked out.

Also placed out of multi variable, despite only going through TJ’s version of BC. [/quote]

FCPS students who are interested in STEM should not have to be ready to be taught at an MIT level in high school in order to survive at TJ.  That is what FCPS has let TJ become, which is why many kids no longer want to apply to go there.    [/quote]

I know a bunch of kids were accepted to TJ, but refused, not only because of the known cheating (whether or not TJ people call it that, but also because they would not have anything in common with TJ's current over prepping students.  In other words, they believe that one should be admitted by their own talent, not by memorization, and parents who force many hours per day on tutoring.  If you need a tutor for hours each day, maybe the school is too much for you. Kids should be getting in by their own merits - not being prepped to the test. [/quote]

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