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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are doing this everywhere at their base school. Heaven help you if your TJ Kid can't handle it.[/quote]

Thanks for the advice. That’s encouraging. At TJ though kids are strongly counseled not to do this normally so I’m not sure if there are differences in how the classes are taught there that make it harder to do concurrently. [/quote]

TJ BC is brutal. Far far beyond the AP exam and base school class. Same for Physics C. Only recommended for the truly gifted to take simultaneously junior year. Plenty of TJ kids with Cs in these classes who breezed through pre calc. Not just this year but every year. Proceed with caution. [/quote]

[b]Why do they torture kids like this?[/b]
Blair has a Magnet Analysis class that goes beyond Calc BC, so they give it a different name. [/quote]
TJ calculus or any TJ math appears overwhelming because it's compared to base school math, where homework is kept very light and lot of time is spent on first few units, whereas last units, usually the advanced topics, are rushed through in final weeks or skipped altogether. At TJ, they keep consistent pace no matter what covering all units, and never hold back on homework or test rigor, even if half of class were to get a C.[/quote]

But some teachers do curve routinely. [/quote]

Not in Calc. They don’t curve even if average is a D. Which happens. [/quote]
Thankfully they dont curve in advanced classes, else TJ would be no different from base school.  However there is curving and grade inflation in beginner courses and we all know why. [/quote]
Are you trying to make a coherent point here, or just spouting white noise? Not sure whether you realize that some of the hardest math/science courses at top colleges are very often curved (sometimes significantly), and the curve varies for each exam.

Curving is a tool that teachers use when they realize that an exam was more difficult than the performance they expected from their students.[/quote]
The base schools in FCPS have provided us with ample firsthand experience of curving and inflated grades. Given TJ's reputation, one would anticipate the maintenance of high, strict standards, which is fortunately observed in the advanced courses. Hats off to those TJ Calc BC and Physics C teachers. However, the same cannot be said of TJ's beginner courses, as you also indirectly acknowledge through the justification of curving as a commonly employed tool. We expect stricter standards, even for beginner courses, at TJ. But alas![/quote]

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