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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a former TJ teacher. I was a bit shocked and disappointed to hear about the proposed change. I specifically wanted to work at TJ because I love working with gifted kids, which is what I thought TJ was all about,  but maybe I just assumed that (?). Not to say the kids selected through the lottery won't be gifted, but it will be a mixed bag for sure, which will require more differentiation and probably less of an opportunity to go as in depth as I loved to do with my students. I do hope the powers that be at least figure out a way to identify the profoundly gifted kids who are interested in STEM, as I feel they would be the real losers in this plan.[/quote]

Do you think teachers will leave to pursue other endeavors?[/quote]

Teachers will wait to see what happens. TJ is a great gig for a teacher. So they'll see what the new class looks like - chances are, it won't look too much different except for there'll be a few more kids in Geometry - and they'll probably hang in there.[/quote]

I'm the PP to whom your question was directed. The answer, above, was not written by me. If I were still teaching at TJ, I would consider planning my exit strategy. I say this because I see this as being the beginning of the end. These changes will have a domino effect that will become apparent in 3-5 years, and it will no longer be the special place that students want to go the extra mile to attend. [/quote]

I responded previously much earlier to the OP. If I were still teaching at TJ, I would be excited about the possibilities of the change in the admissions process. I found my students to be increasingly self-involved and one-dimensional as the years passed - more and more focused on college and less and less focused on high school. Increase in high-maintenance parenting, increase in grade-grubbing, decrease in genuine interest in the subject matter - not just in my class, but in my colleagues' as well.

I'd be excited that the decrease in emphasis on test prep and resume-stacking would result in a student population that is more genuinely curious and more directed toward enjoying the rigorous high school environment for its own sake. TJ parents won't want to hear this, but there really wasn't that much of a difference between my AP students there and at the local high school where I taught previously in terms of ability. The difference was that the TJ students were more focused on their grades and less focused on learning.[/quote]

Are you pretending to be a former TJ teacher to spew anti-TJ and anti-Asian stereotypes? Sounds like you never taught at TJ since you do not say anything factually that would lend some credibility that you were in fact a teacher at TJ. Which white bio teacher was known to love watermelon? This was a well known fact at TJ.[/quote]

Oh sure - I'll do the same thing as Curie did and post names of people on this board. Great idea.

Let's see....there was a math teacher who had photos of comic book covers all over the walls of their classroom, another math teacher who was the football team's offensive coordinator, another math teacher who works with the color guard, two of the math teachers were TJ alums and one of them completely rewrote the TJ math curriculum to what it currently looks like today (TJ Math 1, 2, 2.5, 3, etc).

And I didn't work in the math department. So there.[/quote]

crickets[/quote]

still crickets[/quote]

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