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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]If students are responsible for younger siblings, working, and don't have parental support, how will they handle the workload at TJ?

Not saying they shouldn't be given a shot but it doesn't seem like an environment in which they would be able to keep up.[/quote]

That's their business, not yours. You are looking for a reason not to admit them or for them not to apply. Stop.

Besides, in many of those instances, "care" involves literally just being at home so that the party in question isn't home alone. That doesn't preclude one from doing homework. It does, however, preclude being out at an extracurricular activity.[/quote]

First, I said in my post that I wasn't saying they shouldn't be given a shot
Second, if the entire process is being re-arranged to accommodate these students and then they fail because the problems they face are still there we will again hear calls for more accommodation. As a taxpayer, its actually my business since those pushing for this made it so. You can't reconfigure everything based on these factors and then say its no one's business. They've made it our business. [/quote]

TJ has been working for years on decoupling rigor and workload through the Challenge Success initiative - meaning that they are working to maintain the exceptional rigor of the school while reducing the impact on students in terms of time and stress spent outside of the school day on homework and study. That initiative is in its fourth year, well pre-dating any of this business with admissions.

[b]You will notice that at literally no point has anyone involved in this process from the FCPS level said anything about lowering the standards of the TJ education. There is no sense in which your comments about "reconfiguring everything based on these factors" and "calls for more accommodation" have any merit at all.
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If they fail, they fail. Plenty of TJ kids (10-15% every year) [i]have been failing[/i] via the previous admissions process. If the Class of 2025 loses a quarter of its class year over year, then perhaps you'll have a case to make. Until then, kindly have a seat and go the way of the "defund/eliminate TJ" sycophants.[/quote]

They have just reconfigured the standards for entry based on these students. If they fail, you can guarantee the conversation about lowering standards is coming (if it hasn't already started privately). [/quote]

It has already come, if you pay attention to these fora.

There is a distinct difference between "reconfiguring" the standards and "lowering" the standards.

Indeed, the new admissions process resulted in a significantly [b]lower[/b] acceptance rate among the applicant pool and a significantly higher average GPA among those initially offered admission. One imagines that that average GPA likely increased further once some initial offers were declined and spaces were granted to students on the wait list, especially if they were offered to students in the unallocated pool.

Wait for them to fail before you bury them. [b]Engaging in speculation about 14 year olds failing because their race, culture, or background is not your is gross.[/b][/quote]

[b]hyperbolic nonsense.[/b]  [/quote]

There's nothing hyperbolic about it. It's what everyone in the regressive camp has been doing for months - presuming that there are only three options for these students: 1) they will fail because they are unprepared; 2) the school will be somehow "watered down" in an attempt to prove that they weren't unprepared; 3) both.[/quote]

[b]The biggest change in raw numbers was the increase in number of white students admitted this year.[/b]  Your comments on race, culture -whatever that means in this context, or background are hyperbolic nonsense.[/quote]

Factually incorrect. White students increased from 86 to 123, a delta of 37. Hispanic students increased from 16 to 62, a delta of 46. Black students increased from TS, which can be anywhere from zero to 9, to 39.

2024: https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students
2025: https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem

You're done.[/quote]

You do realize that hispanics can also be white right?

Done with what?[/quote]

Generally speaking, [b]that falls in the category of "multiracial[/b]", a designation that did not change significantly year-over-year.

When you post a factual inaccuracy that is demonstrably false, you are done - that is to say, not to be taken seriously anymore because you don't know what you're talking about.[/quote]

Hispanic is not a race. Factual inaccuracy. So does that mean you're "done" too?[/quote]

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