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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL. You are clearly delusional. TJ senior class has 345 students (out of abojt 430 senior class size) who are National merit semi finalists or commended. 165 are semi finalists and 180 commended. You can’t achieve these honors simply with test prep.

You will see a significant drop with the class of 2025 (first year under new admissions system). I have a child admitted under the new system who probably wouldn’t have applied under the old system and [google]they even see the difference in the kids admitted now and the impression is not smarter nor naturally more intelligent[/google]. [/quote]

Fwiw, there's a point where bringing together the best of the best is no longer beneficial for anyone - and TJ was at that point, was passed that point.  [/quote]

That’s a good argument for returning TJ to use as a community school and abandoning the false pretense that it still attracts the region’s best students. [/quote]

No, there isn’t. The school is not built to serve as a community school. It would require a significant amount of retrofitting to the existing building plot and would almost certainly decimate Annandale and Edison.

This is a fever dream that for some idiot reason won’t die on these boards. TJ is going to continue being what it is because it cannot be anything else.[/quote]

The school was built as a community school. Returning it to that use would not decimate Annandale and Edison if there were other boundary changes.

But the idiots will keep claiming TJ is special when it’s now just mostly an escape hatch from the lower-tier schools rather than anything truly unique justifying the constant drama. [/quote]

Of course it was built as a community school. That building would have worked relatively easily if FCPS decided to revert it to community school use.

But the building was renovated in the middle part of the last decade at a taxpayer expense of over $100M to create what it is today. The cafeteria is so small that you’d have to either have literally ten lunch periods or hire an extraordinary amount of extra security to police the hallways during lunch time (yes, you can allow students to eat anywhere in the building when 100% of them are focused on academics). The entire research lab wing is purpose built for just that - research. And they’re filled with literally tens of millions worth of specialized equipment that is mostly privately financed. Most of the non-STEM classrooms are too small to accommodate what would be a normal class size for a community school. And that’s just the beginning of it.

Like it or not, TJ [i]is[/i] special. And while a lot of people want to knock it down because they’ve got sour grapes about who is going there now (like all of the new low-income Asian students), the kids there are still thriving and still producing exceptional outcomes and results.[/quote]

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