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[quote=Anonymous][quote]TJ boosters need to go over to the VA public school thread. We get that you dislike privates. STA is a super school and I don't have any kids there. Look around at corporate, political and financial leaders. You'll find many more from STA than any public school in this area. Sorry. [/quote]

Nope.  I went to a private and I loved it.  I 'm not a TJ booster but appreciate unemotional and objective examination of clean data.  The discussion, in case you missed it, does not revolve around corporate, political and financial leaders (or job employment and social connections), but around quantifiable measures of a STA education compared to a free public one as TJ or the Blair magnet program.  The measured endpoints are PSAT, SAT/ACT (multiple choice) and AP scores (written and critical thinking) -- nationally administered instruments.  This discussion was fueled by the observation that the public TJ and the Blair Magnet Program had 4 fold the number of National Merit Finalists than STA and other private schools in this region -- approximating 40 percent of each class.  It was unclear whether this outstanding performance on PSAT exams (I gather these are in preparation for later SAT exams and provides the basis for academic scholarship support to attend college) translated to the SAT and ACT, subject SAT exams and the AP examinations that students in AP and honours courses take across the land.  This sterling performance continues throughout the TJ high school educational experience.  There is no data for comparison available for STA.  The endpoints chosen do not paint the full educational picture but represent quantifiable measures adopted at most high schools across the educational high school landscape.

We'll save the topic of job employment, social network and connections for another day.  This too is interesting to pursue. Perhaps you might want to start a separate thread. [/quote]

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