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[quote=Anonymous][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]

1) TJ is not “mostly an escape hatch from
the lower-tier schools”. An extremely generous estimate would be that [i]maybe[/i] 20% of incoming students are coming from schools that you callously refer to as “lower-tier” - but they’re high-performing students from those schools rather than the 75th kid from Carson or the 58th kid from Rocky Run.

2) The “constant drama” that you refer to is generated by a small group of pests who are butthurt about the admissions process and are constantly seeking any angle they can to drum up bad press about the school. It was around this time last year that the National Merit issue captured the imaginations of Klanned Karenhood members everywhere because TJ and a few other schools were a bit late in distributing an award that has essentially zero value. But the story didn’t drop until the Winter Vacation - it literally hit on the day that FCPS employees left for the break.

If you’re sick of the drama, tell the people causing it to cut it out.[/quote]

Best post I've read all week![/quote]

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