Reply to FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "FCPS is turning the new high school purchased to fix crowding into an Aviation magnet school instead of a high school??"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only thing that makes sense is second TJ. Specializing in an industry is ridiculous. Would they really do something so bizarre? I live basically next door to this school and have a 9th grader next year. I’d like it to be a TJ- I didn’t send any of my kids to TJ due to the insane commute. This would pull from all local HS easing enrollment more uniformly.   As a regular high school it’s pretty small.[/quote]

I don't think there's any reason to believe the state would approve a second STEM-oriented regional Governor's School in the same county.  Another "TJ-like" Governor's School would likely be approved in Loudoun first.  [/quote]

APS sends some students to TJ and APS also has “Arlington Tech” which is an STEM option school (academic, not vocational).  Arlington Tech is not a Governor’s School.  The two schools are slightly different educational paths, both STEM, and both are good.  Having both creates more seats and more options for STEM-oriented students.  LCPS already has a similar option program to this.

Not advocating, but FCPS has the power to make the new HS a STEM school *without it being a Governor’s School*, following Arlington Tech as an example.  If they focused on Aviation-related topics and Physics, but downplayed Chem/Bio, they would get more engineering oriented students (and would have fewer pre-Med students crowding out the would-be engineers and scientists; one of TJ’s secrets is that a lot of students are not really interested in STEM — only are interested in pre-Med/pre-Dental).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics