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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]Colleges care ONLY about GPA.

If you think your child cannot land in the top half of the TJ class AND get a 4.0 (w) or above GPA - then avoid TJ.

The [b]overall curriculum at TJ is same as any base HS [/b]- they all cover mostly the same courses such as AP Stats, AP Cal A/B or B/C, AP Physics. [/quote]
Well TJ has been forcefully transformed into being more of a base HS, while the original intent was for it have a much higher curriculum than that of base HS's.

[b]As originally designed, TJ historically drew the attention of exceptional students because those students saw it as their only public school choice to get access to advanced curriculum that went beyond AP levels.  These students were not coming to TJ to finish at AP level, but start there and progress further.  For instance with math, an academically advanced TJ student historically expected to complete AP calculus BC in freshman/sophomore, MultiVariable & Linear in sophomore/junior, differential & discrete in junior/senior, and adv math techniques & scientific math in senior year.  While these courses still exist currently, the enrollment in these courses is very low due to the caliber of admitted class.  The middle schools in the past have supported and nurtured exceptional students by providing access to precalculus courses in the middle school itself, allowing them to go far beyond AP level if they chose TJ[/b].

Over the past two decades, the rise of equity and diversity politics in FCPS and other feeder county schools has created roadblocks for these exceptional students in achieving precalculus or calculus by the end of middle school. The maximum access they now have is for Algebra 2 Trig, and even this requires numerous approvals and summer course enrollment. As a result, the pool of top talent entering TJ with trig and, at most, precalculus credits from middle school has been drastically reduced to less than a fifth of the new class. Currently, fewer than a hundred students in a TJ class enroll in courses beyond Multivariable/Linear.
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[b]When was this? [/b] (From you post, apparently this was 3-4 decades ago.  As an FCPS alum myself, I'm not sure I can agree with you on this.)

FWIW, "equity and diversity politics" have only been around for the past 5 years or so.  That is not why middle schools do not offer precal classes.  (At TJ, 00 freshmen have completed trig/precal and go straight to calculus?  Are they all from Loudoun County?)[/quote]
If you're unaware of FCPS's history of racial quota-based admissions to TJ dating back to the mid-'90s, you were probably not yet born or likely in preschool. Many younger activists are manipulated into thinking they are starting this equity battle anew, to have you take ownership of it, and work for free. Politicians define the battle to their benefit. Activist is merely a pawn in their battle.   [/quote]

There is no such history since it's always been illegal. This is just misinformation spread by some bitter parents with an axe to grind.[/quote]

"[b]FCPS created a race-based affirmative action program to admit more black and Hispanic students.[/b] The program was in effect for the admissions process for the graduating classes of 1997 through 2002; the county ended it because of legal challenges to similar programs. Following the end of this program, the share of black and Hispanic students at the school decreased from 9.4 percent in 1997–98 to 3.5 percent in 2003–04."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_for_Science_and_Technology[/quote]
No racial preference at all whatsoever...., until it gets exposed.  Hopefully someone working there snitches and exposes the inside sham this time too.  That drop from 9.4 to 3.5 percent is dramatic.  Wonder how they explained it.[/quote]

Affirmative action was an understood and accepted part of admissions processes ... until it wasn't.  How old are you?
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Old enough to have seen these racial deviltries over and over, even before you were born. Racial politics back then also hurt the very people it claimed to uplift, much like what you're seeing now with loading up the lower segment of TJ with innocent kids who cant handle 'the rigor and are forced to struggle and suffer with Cs, Ds, and Fs.  [/quote]

Not to mention: when other TJ students see the newer racially-preferences kids at school, they assume they are only there based on skin color, and they avoid group-projects with those kids.

Great job by the woke school board.  /s[/quote]
group projects that dont require math or science go just fine, like art cultural club related.  Other than initial iBet project, the algebra 1 students prefer to form a group with their classmates, dont get to see or collaborate with math4/5 students as they are in a different class altogether. The way the admissions are being done with different talent levels, there arent many opportunities for mixed talents to collaborate together on academic projects.  [/quote]

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