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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get why people think that kids that struggle at TJ would be superstars at top of base school.  They probably would do better at base, but the difference in rigor isn’t so great to drastically impact their performance.[/quote]

I think that parents expect that their kid will be at a school with less pressure, which can help some kds perform better. They will be with kids that  they have known all through school, which relieves some of the social pressure they might have been feeling. And they expect that their kid is going to be able to handle a work load geared towards kids with a wider range of abilities to be more manageable.

I suspect that what really matters is what school is the base school. A kid returning to McLean, Langley, Oakton, Chantilly is returning to a school where a lot of kids applied for TJ, were qualified for TJ, but were not admitted. The environment is going to change that much because the student body is closer to TJs anyway. The middle HS, Lake Braddock, Robinson, Madison, Marshall, and the like are probably easier for a TJ returnee to shine at but not easy. There are plenty of smart kids who didn’t apply or were not accepted. The pressure level is probably different so that could help.

Fifteen MSs had fewer than 10 kids admitted to TJ, I would guess that the HS those MS feed into are potentially easier for a TJ kid to shine at if they return to their base school. I would expect a TJ kid to have an easier time at Herndon, Annandale, Lewis, Mt. Vernon and the like. There is a far smaller cohort and there is more support for the students at the school

But it depends on how the kid rebounds from changing schools and why the kid moved. Was it feeling isolated because they didn’t know others? Were they academically in over their head? [/quote]

[b]So much goes into how kids would end up performing but that really isn’t the idea behind this comment. TJ parents think their kids would be at the top of the base schools because they believe their kids are the brightest in fcps.[/b] [/quote]

You are so determined to kill a strawman argument.

The vast majority of the arguments here are not that a struggling kid at TJ would be a superstar (like top 1-2%?) at base HS. That is really not the argument.

A kid who is at a certain percentile at TJ would likely be at a much higher percentile at base HS.

Coming at it another way, most of the kids applying/admitted to TJ are likely in the top 20% of their cohort. At base HS they are likely going to be in that top 20% cohort.

The argument is never bottom 5% kid at TJ ends up being top 5% at base HS.  
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I am NOT talking about only the bottom at TJ. Please don’t try and water down someone’s post by changing the facts to fit your narrative. [/quote]

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