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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do some of you act like TJ has to accept the very best? It’s not a competition. It’s a magnet school. It’s just too bad that s not big enough to accept all qualified applicants. [/quote]

The very best are the kids who will surpass the course offerings at their local high schools and run out of classes to take.  The math whizzes will be taking Calc in either 9th or 10th grade.  TJ is the only place with enough math classes.  Likewise, science whizzes will easily handle the AP courses at their local schools and end up without viable classes for their last few years.

It honestly makes no sense at all to admit a bunch of kids to TJ who largely will take the exact same classes that would have been available at their local high school.  [/quote]

It honestly makes no sense to consider a kid who is taking algebra II in 8th grade is somehow more worthy of TJ than a kid who is taking Algebra I in 8th grade. Both kids are advanced. And the majority of kids on these super accelerated paths are only there because of a combination of parental pressure, outside tutoring, and other advantages. And they are only on that path because their parents want TJ, and the old system rewarded previous advantage with more advantage. [/quote]

The kid taking algebra 2 in 8th is two years more advanced than the kid taking algebra I in 8th.

[b]The kid taking algebra 2 in 8th completes the standard advanced math high school curriculum as a sophomore.  If they are a whiz kid at a middling school, they run out of math classes by junior year.[/b]

The kid taking algebra 1 in 8th grade is on the average math track for average to somewhat bright students, and just makes it to calc AB as a senior.

There is tremendous difference between the two.

A kid with only algebre 1 in 8th should bever have been given a TJ slot.[/quote]

I have no dog in this fight, so I am not commenting on all that is going on. My son completed middle school with Algebra 2 and was a straight A student, but decided he did not want to apply/go to TJ and went to one of those middling high schools to use your words. He was able to concurrently enroll at GMU for three math courses in high school (two taught at his high school) and the credits were accepted at his engineering school in college. I do not know if all schools have that option, but if it was an option at his middling school, it probably is at most if not all. [/quote]

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