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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Past time to shut TJ down permanently.[/quote]

Another parent whose kid didn't get in.[/quote]

TJHSST receives over 3m more out of local property taxes than a base school.  The admissions dept was over 700k with a revenue offset from application fees.   Brabrand wants to remove the $100 fee.  A bond was passed for an addition at Justice, an adjacent school.  TJ has been operating at 82% capacity. 
 More money for debt service.

TJ was a site that was under capacity and could have been closed.  The Sully District did not even exist as a Magisterial District when TJ began and FCPS has ignored capacity needs in western FX.  Many of the Curie or Carson students live in Sully or Western FX.  TJHSST should be an academy program not a full time governor's school.  The future western HS should have a co-located academy similar to a TJ base school + academy.

These academies should have $100+ app fees.

FCPS has been a colossal fail on producing students who major in STEM.  Why?  Hyper focused on TJ and runs too many IB programs. H 1B numbers are the proof.  VA as a state has over 11k  with most concentrated in NOVA, domicile of TJHSST.  About 46% of this visa category is bachelor's degrees and 45% masters [many achieved while in the US with the visa].

TJ has also distorted academic opportunity since there is no valid reason other than IBET that capable students in grade 8 honors alg 1 or in geometry should not take bio 1 for an end of course in middle school.  That existed for a brief time in FCPS but got cut because of TJHSST.  The prep centers have also distorted the students actually intellectually capable of math acceleration naturally.

Over a decade ago we saw personally the extreme amount of time, effort, money, and energy expended by some for alg 1 in grade 6 and 7.  [/quote]

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