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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bottom line seems to be that "reform" to TJ may be necessary to preserve it, when you consider that TJ's student is not remotely representative of the student demographics of FCPS and more FCPS students could be educated at that site.

I don't see the School Board as having the political will to do much more than Tweet about it occasionally, as Pat Hynes did many months ago.  So I'm also skeptical it deserves a lot of attention here.

But if they did "reform" TJ, it likely would be accompanied by [b]having AAP at every middle school[/b] (doing away with the Carson "mega-center") and setting aside a certain number of seats for students from each middle school.  If parents then tried to "game" that system, they'd still be serving the goal of strengthening some of the middle schools that currently lag behind.  Not all the kids who would move to those schools would get into TJ, and not every family that moved into those districts would pull their kids out of the pyramids if they didn't.  Even if TJ still ended up 75% Asian and 2% FARMS, there could still be a positive impact on pyramids like Annandale, Lee and Mount Vernon.     [/quote]

This is already happening.  And I understand that there are some possible boundary/feeder changes that would significantly reduce Carson's "mega-center" status as well.  [/quote]

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