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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though. [/quote]
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.[/quote]
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely [b]for the sake of diversity[/b], only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

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It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.[/quote]DP

Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student.  But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.

Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.  [/quote]

That’s the whole problem with using essays to select students.  They are selecting students who have writing skills, but not necessarily STEM schools.  At Cooper some of the math counts/science Olympiad students in Honors Algebra II were waitlisted, while a student in Algebra I without any stem club experience was admitted.  [/quote]

Speaking of Science Olympiad, TJ was beaten by both Woodson and Langley in the regional this year:
https://www.duosmium.org/results/2025-03-01_VA_mary_washington_regional_c/

Teams from other schools made adjustment to provide opportunity to more junior students in the school team. As a result, TJ got 1st at the state tournament leading the 2nd place with a very small spread:
https://www.duosmium.org/results/2025-03-29_VA_states_c/

TJ was the only team heading to the national, anounced  at the VA state award ceremony. Woodson was granted permission to attend the national later, lost some preparation time. But still, Woodson got 25th at the national, not too far from TJ's 19th.
https://www.duosmium.org/results/2025-05-23_nationals_c/

Obviously, the current TJ admission failed to recruit many STEM strong middle schoolers. The mismatch of learning needs is causing waste of resources and opportunities.
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Let's see...TJ did better at Nationals this year than almost recent prior years (aside from 2019 & 2021):
[i]2013	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	25th
2014	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	23rd
2018	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	26th
2019	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	12th
2021	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	18th
2022	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	21st
2023	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	26th
2024	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	21st
[b]2025	Science Olympiad National Tournament (Div. C)	19th[/b][/i]

And has been kicking ass at States in recent years: 
[i]2010	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	3rd
2011	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	4th
2012	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	3rd
2013	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2014	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2015	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	2nd
2016	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	2nd
2017	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	2nd
2018	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2019	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2021	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2022	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	2nd
[b]2023	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2024	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st
2025	Virginia Science Olympiad State Tournament (Div. C)	1st[/b][/i]

And had their best showing at CMU this year: 
[i]2020	Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C)	4th, 5th, 6th
2021	Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C)	3rd, 4th, 6th
2023	Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C)	2nd, 4th, 5th
[b]2025	Carnegie Mellon University Science Olympiad Invitational (Div. C)	1st, 3rd, 4th[/b]
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And yet...the RWNJs complain...

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DP

The top 100-200 kids haven't really changed much.  It's the rest of the kids that are getting thinned out.

The notion that there hasn't been a reduction in average academic ability is ridiculous.
120 point drop on the PSAT.  [b]NO OTHER SCHOOL[/b] has seen this sort of drop.  
None of the other school in FCPS saw this sort of drop.  
None of the specialized schools in NYC saw this sort of drop.

The SAT numbers are going to come out and I think that will confirm the PSAT results.[/quote]

How many other schools have increased FRE % from 2% to 16%? 
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What are you trying to say about the FRE students?  So you know how bad their PSAT score have to be for 16% of the class to drag down the PSAT average but 120 points?  It's not just the FRE kids, more than 50% of the kids are scoring 1400 or lower.  [/quote]

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