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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kilmer went to having the fourth or fifth highest number of TJ admissions behind Carson, Longfellow, and Rocky Run (and sometimes Frost) to having the lowest percentage admissions rate of any FCPS middle school for the TJ Class of 2025.

Kilmer is in the Providence District, represented by Karl Frisch.  FCPS Pride gave Frisch an award this weekend for his service to FCPS, also specifically including the LBGTQIA community.

If you aren't as thrilled with what Frisch has done for Kilmer and other Providence District schools and families as FCPS Pride, you know what to do next fall when the School Board is up for re-election. [/quote]

What makes Kilmer so inherently special that falling from 5th place means something is wrong with FCPS policy? Consider the other dozen middle schools that sent less than 10 kids every year for the past decade. Was nothing wrong with FCPS policy then? Of course, it was benefitting you so the policy was perfect in your eyes. Why does the Providence district deserve something that the Mount Vernon district doesn't?[/quote]

You'd have to be deliberately obtuse not to know that FCPS pulled the rug out from under parents who'd sent their kids to AAP centers by suddenly allocating seats largely based on middle school quotas that reflected the schools that students were attending, and not their base schools.

So kids who weren't in AAP or were among the minority of AAP-eligible students who turned down the offer to attend an AAP center suddenly were advantaged in the admissions process, while others were disadvantaged - after they and their families thought they were doing exactly what FCPS had encouraged them to do to position themselves for admission to TJ.

That doesn't bother you, of course, because you basically see TJ admission as an exercise in "equal representation," akin to each magisterial district being allowed to have one seat on the Board of Supervisors.  That's OK, one supposes, but it has little to do with the concept of a Governor's School or the notion that TJ exists to nurture the students with the most STEM aptitude.  And, over time, it will lead to TJ's becoming a slightly better than average FCPS high school, but that's about it.  [/quote]

Very well said.  This is exactly what happened.  All the TJ threads can end now.[/quote]

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