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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really is indefensible to limit TJ's size to roughly 1800 students when so many other schools are now forced to educate at least 2300 students.  [/quote]

TJ really isn't small- it's about the same as a lot of the other FCPS high schools: off the top of my head, McLean, Madison, Langley, Edison are all in the same range for number of students. When you get down to 600-800 students you get the benefits of a small school, but not really at 1800.
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No, only Lee is smaller. Some of the schools you mention have over 250 kids than TJ. It's just one more way in which the county caters to a very small group of students. [/quote]

Not the county, the state - TJ is a Governor's school and all the Governor's schools have smaller enrollment. For example, Maggie Walker near Richmond has only about 750 students.[/quote]

All the high schools in Richmond are small as it's an urban school district and many students go private.  The governor's school designation is irrelevant.[/quote]

No, it's not. TJ recieves extra funding from the state of VA as a governor's school.  As a trade off, it's academic standards, including things like class size, are approved by the state. TJ is not just another FCPS HS that we happen to let some other jurisdictions send kids too. It is part of the statewide network of Governor's Schools, and, as such, the state has more input. [/quote]

So what if it's a Governor's School?  [b]Show me where the state has capped the total number of students who can attend TJ.[/b]  Or, if you can't do that, at least learn to spell.

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I know you'll come up with some other complaint re: TJ, but since you asked...before this year the per-pupil funding cap for Governor's schools was 1725, which TJ always exceeded (and it was the only Governor's school which did exceed the attendance cap). But in the last session the State Legislature approved an increase in the cap to 1800 students, an action which only affected TJ and increased its state funding by about $140,000 for the next 2 years.

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2016/054-16b.pdf[/quote]

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