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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So basically the good schools are good enough and TJ should be an alternative for the kids who’d otherwise attend schools that aren’t very good?

That won’t do anything to improve the schools that aren’t very good (in fact it will strip them of kids who might have been role models), but it will change TJ from a top STEM magnet to a charter-like school for some families otherwise faced with less appealing alternatives.

That’s kind of ironic, given how much FCPS freaks out at any mention of charters.

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It’s not “charter-like” at all. Or maybe you have a bizarre understanding of charter schools. [/quote]

Apparently better than you.  You might want to read up on their attributes. [/quote]

Please describe the attributes you associate with charter schools. 
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Some that come to mind:

* located in declining school districts (check)

* largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative (check)

* selective (check) (feel free to read Valerie Strauss and Kevin Welner on this topic)

* function with greater autonomy than other schools in the same district (check)

* more likely to push out kids who don't make the school look successful (check) [/quote]

BS.

Despite the RWNJ propaganda you read, FCPS isn’t “declining”.  :roll:

TJ was just named #1 HS in the nation again so they must be doing something right. 
#1 in National Rankings
#1 in Virginia High Schools
#1 in Washington, DC Metro Area High Schools

And FCPS has 8 out of 10 top HSs in VA. 
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia

And TJ is certainly not “largely functioning to give parents at the worst schools an alternative”. GMAFB. Did they even admit the top 1.5% at every school? 
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Sure, FCPS has some of the top schools in the state because it still has parents compensating for the glaring weaknesses in FCPS.  Now look at the growing number of schools in FCPS nowhere near the top 10.

And the latest TJ rankings are based entirely on the performance of recent graduates admitted years ago under the system that you and your crony friends  worked so hard to overturn.  Come back in 5-6 years when the rankings are based on the performance of kids admitted under the new pork-barrel spoils system.

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FCPS and TJ are fine. More than fine.

And TJ is not like a charter.  :roll: 
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So you got called out and your response was to run away from the facts?

Your ilk wants to take credit for the accomplishments of recent TJ graduates after you spent years calling them toxic, test-prepped robots.  [/quote]

These ranking that some parents are obsessed with are mostly meaningless. The value of TJ is how well it serves the tax payers who support it. These changes to the selection process seems to accomplish that much better than the old system.[/quote]

Why?  Are more children of tax-paying residents of Virginia attending TJ under the new system?   [/quote]

Actually, yes! Because the class size was increased by nearly 20%, indeed there are more children of Virginia taxapyers attending TJ now than there used to be.[/quote]

That's a function of TJ's recent renovation and expansion, dumb ass, not the change in the admissions policy.  [/quote]

The renovation that was completed in 2017?  You are full of sh1t.  :lol:

It was part of the new admissions process: 
“ This is the first class to apply under the revised admissions process which eliminated the standardized admissions test for TJHSST, eliminated the $100 application fee, raised the minimum GPA, and expanded the freshman class from 480 to 550.” [/quote]

Sorry if some of us don’t drink your Kool-Aid.  The fact that the expansion predated the change in admissions policy only proves PP’s point. [/quote]

They waited FOUR years to increase the class size?

Lame.  :lol:

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They have waited longer than four years to use the additional capacity or address overcrowding at other schools.  Four years is lightning speed by FCPS standards.  [/quote]

They could have increased the enrollment for fall of 2017. Or 2018. Or 2019. Or 2020.

But they waited until 2021 when they changed the admissions policy. Doesn’t take that long to hire a few more teachers and maybe add another bus.

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