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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]"Thank you!! Super helpful. Have these questions appeared on paper in prior budget discussions? Surprised this isn't more widely reported - but then, the fervor for TJ doesn't exist in Arlington to quite the same extent as it does in other local communities."[/quote]

There has been some discussion on AEM and other Facebook groups.  At least one Board member (RG) responded when asked about this:  "What should we cut instead?"  The obvious and snarky response, of course, was "Board member salaries," but I don't think anyone actually said that.  Don't know whether the money which might flow from the recently passed COVID-relief bill might "save" some of these Tier 1 cuts, which also included things like Middle School sports and extra-curricular clubs like Math Counts and Science Olympiad.[/quote]

Amusingly, if you cut TJ, you'd probably eliminate a lot of the demand for Math Counts and Science Olympiad. Not all of it, to be sure, but a fair amount. I wonder how many APS students eschew middle school sports in favor of stuff that "will help them get into TJ". I will tell you it happens a TON in Fairfax and Loudoun, even though sports out there are club-based.[/quote]

Arlington would only send 12-15 kids every admissions cycle.  That is out of 7 middle schools so you are talking one or two kids per school getting in to start with.  Most kids don't waste their time even thinking about TJ in Arlington since the county has great high schools.  Arlington has been talking about dropping out of TJ for years.  I assume it will happen in the next year or two.   [/quote]

This is a fair point, but substantially all of the APS TJ cohort comes from Williamsburg (mostly) and Swanson (a few) with an odd exception here or there from Jefferson or maybe Kenmore.[/quote]

But now is it the top 1.5% from each school?  Or is that only for FCPS?[/quote]

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