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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s silly to spring on these kids that they can’t walk at the last minute.

However, it’s deeply troubling that these kids can’t pass calculus. And shocking that they are taking Calc in 12th grade at TJ. The admissions changes really impacted the school that my kids graduated from just a few years ago. [/quote]

Mukai is fixing it as best he can by enforcing the GPA requirement and sending a lot of kids back to their schools after freshman year and recruiting large froshmore classes.[/quote]

That's not likely to go well. I can't imagine a sophomore being flung into the rigor of TJ.

Besides the fact that the actual issue at TJ is rampant cheating. That's the only way to succeed in classes like math where teachers have openly told me they don't teach the class material. Kids are expected to teach themselves and each other. [/quote]

There are PLENTY of students that are qualified for froshmore. They should indeed shunt the students who can't hack it out of TJ early.  Calc in 12th grade is a failure to place appropriately much earlier in elementary/middle - sometimes out of district. TJ should have more summer options to deal with that. My TJ freshman would love to kill off precalc in the summer.

Anyways, hopefully in the future they won't have any students that don't qualify for the TJ diploma. I have one that's a junior at base and will be a national merit finalist but only getting a regular diploma, didn't want to do the Fine Arts or Career and Technical Ed requirement.  AP CS Principles, AP CS A, and the 2 dual enrolled CS classes do not count for this. Silly but obviously not the same thing. [/quote]

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