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What I have learned in many years of experience in Northern Virginia and TJ is this:

If you have a hard and fast selection criteria that you use and apply equally to all students - basically no matter what it is - the system will favor the parents who have the resources and motivation to fit their round kid into the square hole. And you’re going to get a huge number of kids who all have relatively the same profile because the parents figured out that “that’s the profile that works”.

No matter what racial balance that creates, it’s a negative outcome for TJ. Too many similar kids results in mental health issues.[/quote]

What everyone (mostly everyone) wants is a return to the best years of TJ, to the good old days when gifted students had rigorous but not crushing classes, a peer group of innovative students, and lower pressure.  The 80s and 90s, maybe?

So far, no one has any  idea how to recreate that.  But I think a change is a step in the right direction.[/quote]

Yup this is the core issue

It used to be that AAP was a good metric, now it's more about playing the game and plenty of above average but not actually genius level kids are in the programs

You could make an argument that the bulk of kids should be coming from Carson Longfellow and Rocky but again how many folks are actually genius vs how many kids are just working hard and gaming the system

I made the point earlier about the bulk of the admissions should be from those 3 schools

I think we can all agree we should really be focused on the actual geniuses attending lower performing schools in FPS.  In theory that's what AAP should be doing identifying those kids and providing differentiated instruction which is unavailable at the base school.  Again most of AAP now is simply wealthy above average kids mixed in with the actual geniuses.[/quote]

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