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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]look they have tried this before.  They have lowered standards to try and get URM and then TJ has to offer remedial classes.

TJ should not be having to offer remedial classes they should be taking the best students period

Long term if you want to "fix" the FARMS/URM AAP needs to do a better job selecting gifted students instead of being used by pushy parents with above average students (but not always gifted) to get out of the gen ed curriculum.[/quote]

The reason remedial classes had to be offered at TJ a few years ago was not that they had lowered standards. Actually, the reason was that so many kids had been prepped and tutored so that they appeared to be better at math than they actually were.

The overly prepped kids got to TJ and it was obvious to their math teachers that their fundamentals were weak, so the teachers required them to do remedial work during eighth period. This situation was part of the reason behind the overhaul of the TJ math program a few years ago. [/quote]

So the new TJ students have not prepped for at least past 9 years. I knew there wasn't as much prep going on as suggested by a poster who seems obsessed with one prep center. [/quote]

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