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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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. [/quote]

We've seen what happens when kids come back to base schools.  They go from B/C to A/A- [/quote]

Gmafb…your sampling of 1? Meaning: you personally know the kid well enough that you knew the TJ grades, knew they transferred and then knew their base grades? If you clap back that your kid knew them: a) how many could your kid know well enough for this info; and b) no one would really know the transferred kid’s actual grades except his family. [/quote]

How big of a sample size do you need?  
If FCPS has no interest in tracking this information, all we have are anecdotes.
We know these kids left TJ because their GPA was bad and we know these kids did better at their base school. 
My anecdotes are from a mid tier school that always sends over 10 kids but is not one of the feeder schools.

The anecdotes are from 3 kids.
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