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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why has there never been a serious discussion about changing TJ to an Academy where any student can take classes?

Or even follow the LCPS model of 1/2 base school and 1/2 magnet program?  It makes so much more sense to spread out a limited resource.  [/quote]

Because changing it to an Academy would only serve a larger number of students if you rebuilt about 2/3 of the present school building at an enormous cost.[/quote]

This seems like a made up assertion.  Even if, for example, kids weren’t taking gym at an Academy program, the gym could still be retained and made available for local community use.[/quote]

Maybe but wish they'd go back to the older process where we could [b]just buy access to the admission test[/b]. It was so much better.[/quote]

Do you have any evidence that anyone could buy TJ evidence? Can you point to an article? [/quote]

DP. TJ students from Curie have confirmed that they recognized exact problems [b](NOT the entire exam)[/b] that were on their Quant-Q exam from their previous studies with Curie. That's not up for debate or discussion anymore among serious people. Because the flagship Curie TJ Prep course used to cost about $5,000 and apparently afforded students access to questions that were repeated from one year to the next, that's the reason for the slightly inaccurate "buying access to the test" narrative.

It's understood at this point that some of Curie's students in TJ's Class of 2022 and perhaps 2023 probably reported back to Curie after having taken the exam on as many of the problems as they can remember, allowing Curie to build a curriculum designed to beat the Quant-Q, which is a problem-solving exam where speed is essential. Like any standardized exam, the Quant-Q uses multiple forms and a question bank where some questions are recycled from year to year. Unlike most exams, the Quant-Q requires anyone who sees it to sign an NDA agreeing not to discuss it with anyone - because the entire value of the exam is in testing students' ability to solve problem types that they've never seen before.

Although Curie was not cited by name by FCPS, its apparent effectiveness and that of similar prep courses was certainly a major factor in FCPS' decision to abandon standardized testing in the TJ Admissions process.[/quote]

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