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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ The issue is, as it relates back to TJ, is that URM and lower-income students are disadvantaged in the process. [/quote]

so give everyone test prep materials and it will be even. Don't pull others down because its easier than providing resources where they are needed.[/quote]

How is this even?  Will they have parents requiring 20 min a day?  Will they have parents nagging and threatening?  Advocating their kid is bored?  Going to teacher conferences and asking the right questions?[/quote]

Do you hear yourself? It's actually disgusting you're making it seem like these children have incompetent parents. If everyone has access to test prep materials, that's as even as it needs to be. [/quote]

Test prep is not the answer. If you have to prep for the test, TJ is not the right school for you. There needs to be a way to find the kids who will benefit most from TJ that cannot be “prepped” for.

What my family observed when our child was at TJ was that kids who prepped the most for TJ were frequently the ones who struggled the most and were the unhappiest while there. They would have learned more and had a better experience at their assigned high school.

A TJ full of kids who didn’t need to “prep” for an entrance test would be a much more relaxed and healthy place where kids would be truly learning.  
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? Kids are happy there when they are confident in their abilities and have friends to attend with or are easily able to make friends at TJ. Give it a rest that prep somehow disqualifies anyone. FCPS is so unaware and unable to stop what parents do to help their kids or what kids do on their own. You can't police everyone. Just help the kids who need an extra boost.[/quote]

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