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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pat Hynes
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Mar 20
Does sound like TJ. DiBlasio’s proposed solution for NY is to admit the top students from every middle school - geographic equality as a stand-in for equity. Might work. Look at SF’s experience with Lowell HS - geography-plus. FCPS will begin TJ reform plan this year.
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Has anyone been following this?[/quote]

No, but this is a terrible idea. It came up a few years ago and[b] a bunch of parents said outright that they'll simply rent in less-desirable school middle school boundaries to increase their kids' chances if FCPS goes this route.[/b] FCPS is loathe to admit it, but they're well-aware that the county has a vested interest in not losing the TJ and AAP parents. I think they'll talk a big game but never follow through.[/quote]

Sounds great!

I'm all for this plan![/quote]

+1 This would be a great incentive to get people to integrate schools by SES.  Some schools in FCPS are overs 50 percent FARMS and some are 5 percent.  This would help to mitigate that disparity, and would actually improve FCPS overall performance.  It won't do anything for the diversity of TJ, though.  I really think not having any school above 35 percent FARMS is a way better goal than integrating TJ.  If dangling the carrot of an easier way into TJ would result in fixing the FARMS disparity, I don't care if TJ doesn't increase the number of URMs admitted.  A high performing URM isn't disadvantaged by shining at the base HS over being one of a sea of high performing kids at TJ.  [/quote]

The high school I went to had a number of parachute kids. They were kids who did not pass the exams for elite high schools in Japan and South Korea. Their parents rented an apartment in our town, moved their kid, and then moved back to Japan or South Korea, leaving their child alone in the apartment. I can fully see parents renting an apartment in the area of a high FARMs school and calling that home so they can enroll the child in that MS. Then they would simply drive the kid to the school each day. There are already parents who are out of bounds for various language and magnet schools were parents drive their kids, so renting an apartment to gain access to a school that would make it easier to attend TJ is something totally feasible.

I actually wonder about some of the out of bounds folks in JI at Fox Mill. The school feeds into Carson and a JI Fox Mill student has access to Carson for MS, as long as they take JI. You can take Advanced Math at Fox Mill, which is what most people want for their kids to get into Algebra in 7th grade. Parents can get their kid into a school that feeds into Carson, qualify for Advanced Math, maybe even AAP and wait until MS to accept it, and then go to one of the larger feeder MS.

I fully believe that a good number of people choose the JI program because it is interesting, challenging, and different. I can also see people choosing it because it helps them avoid middle schools and high schools that don't have Japanese. Herndon Middle School and High School does not have Japanese.

So why is it out of the realm of possibility that people would rent and apartment, call it home, and then live some place else and drive their kid to school each day so their kid can be in the top 10% of the class and get into TJ.

And if you think those kids are going to improve anything at that MS you are crazy. The kids will be in AAP classes and their parents will enroll them in enrichment activities outside of the school. [/quote]

If these kids do this, then there will be more higher level classes offered, which will benefit the base students.  [/quote].

For less than a year. They aren’t going K-8. They come in the last possible day and leave as soon as they test. [/quote]

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