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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI, ACPS published it's class of 2016 "decision day" list of colleges and universities. Link below. 331 students headed to college. Since you mentioned UVA - 31 from the class of 2016 are headed there. TC students are also headed to Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Emory, UC Berkley. Lots going to other Virginia schools too (e.g., 50 to Va Tech, 16 to Radford).

http://www.acpsk12.org/news/?p=2666 [/quote]

This year's college list isn't really bad, but it's not anywhere near as good as any recent year's list.  No Harvard, no Yale, no UPenn, no Chicago, no MIT, not one single service academy (right near the Pentagon -- NONE?  No West Point or Annapolis or Colo Springs or New London or King's Point -- not even one kid?), no Duke, etc etc.  Only one each for Cornell, Stanford, Emory, and so forth.  Colleges that picked up one or two TC seniors every year seem to have moved to zero.  This is a very, truly bad result for TC this year.  Not a confidence-builder for any parent that looks carefully at the list and compares it to the list for any recent year.  One reason might be the SAT performance -- 2d lowest scores in the last decade.  The school board had better be ready to deliver an explanation to the parents and voters, because performance has really plummeted, in just one year.

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ACPS must focus on academics above all. The Capital Improvement Plan over the next 15 years on new ACPS builds should reflect this focus with school basics, not all the fluff. Buildings don't educate, teachers and a organized admin do. Get rid of ACPS entrenchment and get on with ACPS academic improvement. [/quote]

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