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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the most surprising things about this thread is how much more reasonable the folks who are advocating for change are compared to the folks advocating for maintaining the status quo.

I don't really have a dog in this fight because my kid graduated from TJ years ago but it's a lot easier to side with the folks who want to make TJ more accessible to a broader demographic.[/quote]

To be fair, some of us oppose the changes not because we think the status quo is great, but rather because the changes are ill-conceived and won't accomplish anything.  If FCPS wants more URM and lower income kids in TJ, and if they want to eliminate kids who are there purely due to extensive prepping, they should implement much stronger early programming.  Strengthen the Young Scholars program.  Offer free after school and summer enrichment to kids who otherwise wouldn't receive it.  Expand programs like AVID to elementary school to help URM or low income kids succeed in advanced math or AAP.  [b]This would lead to more underrepresented kids who could succeed at TJ.[/b]
Without this, they're paying lip service to wanting more minorities at TJ, but they're doing nothing to aid them in being qualified for a school like TJ.

They should also keep some degree of testing, but not place so much weight upon it.  They could switch tests every year to make it more difficult for people to prep.  They could even create their own math test each year.  The tests should do two things: detect kids who have deficiencies that make them unlikely to succeed at TJ and detect kids who are so brilliant or advanced that they really need a school like TJ.  Most of the non-brilliant, highly prepped kids wouldn't fall into either of those categories, so their prepped scores wouldn't necessarily help them.

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and best of all, your kid will already be through TJ by the time we know. That would take a decade to implement and have kids work through with those support in place; we're past the point where the status quo would be acceptable for that long [/quote]

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