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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]Why has there never been a serious discussion about changing TJ to an Academy where any student can take classes?

Or even follow the LCPS model of 1/2 base school and 1/2 magnet program?  It makes so much more sense to spread out a limited resource.  [/quote]

Because changing it to an Academy would only serve a larger number of students if you rebuilt about 2/3 of the present school building at an enormous cost.[/quote]

This seems like a made up assertion.  Even if, for example, kids weren’t taking gym at an Academy program, the gym could still be retained and made available for local community use.[/quote]

Maybe but wish they'd go back to the older process where we could [b]just buy access to the admission test[/b]. It was so much better.[/quote]

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Do you have any evidence that anyone could buy TJ test in past? Can you point to an article? [/quote][/quote]
DP but you have heard of Curie, right?[/quote]
So you know for certain that test center had access to test questions or you heard it here? There has to be some sort of evidence/article pointing to it right?
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[b]Yes. TJ students who actually attended Curie have said it repeatedly, using their real names on Facebook[/b]. And they were on the lists that Curie published.

Now, had this been a prep center that exclusively catered to Black students instead of catering exclusively to Indian students, I guarantee you that Asra Nomani and Harry Jackson would have been all over it and there would be a New York Post article about it. But the left doesn't have the same people with the same free time, connections, and personal wealth to pursue reporting on the matter, and Curie has since scrubbed its Facebook page of the infamous "lists".[/quote]

So were these students expelled from TJ since they rig the system? 
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What they did wasn't against any rules - which is why there can't really be a meaningful investigation into the matter. They simply exposed a major problem with the admissions process as previously constructed, and at least in part inspired some long-needed changes.[/quote]

The students who shared the test questions did break the rules.

Parents and students sign a statement that says they will not discuss the test. Ever.  The stated penalty for breaking that rule is admissions will be withdrawn or removed from TJ.

None of this happened.  [/quote]

No one knows who shared the questions - that's the problem. And I highly doubt that Curie is about to publicly identify the kids who made them millions of dollars by doing so. It's unclear whether or not any of the kids who shared the questions actually got into TJ or AOS or AET.[/quote]

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