Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.

Don't the high schools that Longfellow and Carson feed into ALSO offer dual enrollment post-AP math courses through George Mason, the exact same track TJ offers?

But then Algebra 1 remedial is available at base schools too, why go to TJ for that and suffer?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.

Why should a kid whose school doesn't offer mathcounts be disadvantaged? If FCPS wants to use something as a data point for admission, they need to make sure it is available in all middle schools

FCPS middle school principals have wholeheartedly facilitated mathcounts club gatherings at bottom schools but no one attends. Whereas at at top school, when a similar FCPS middle school principal accommodates mathcounts club meetings afterschool, the entire cafeteria is full.

They don't tell us about this attendance gap in our equity meetings, do they, comrade?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.

Don't the high schools that Longfellow and Carson feed into ALSO offer dual enrollment post-AP math courses through George Mason, the exact same track TJ offers?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.

Why should a kid whose school doesn't offer mathcounts be disadvantaged? If FCPS wants to use something as a data point for admission, they need to make sure it is available in all middle schools

Even if it were available at all schools across the county, there aren't going to be any other kids with the raw aptitude to make Mathcounts top 12. Extra middle school programming is not going to turn a kid into a math prodigy. People who make the argument that the PP did just don't grasp how advanced and amazing these kids are.

Also, any kid who wants to participate can do so. Mathcounts allows kids to register and compete as an independent student if their school doesn't have a team or if they're homeschooled.

Congrats:

Alexander Liu, an eighth grader from Oakton, Va.
Shunyao Yan, an eighth grader from McLean, Va.

Anonymous wrote:Those 8th graders already got their TJ acceptances.

Did they? I thought I heard that one of them got rejected.

Along with their high caliber cohorts…
I don’t get the screaming here about the “lottery, bottom barrel, struggle kids getting in”…

Those 8th graders already got their TJ acceptances.

You can take any math class you want at NOVA. These kids can take the math they want at any high school here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.

Why should a kid whose school doesn't offer mathcounts be disadvantaged? If FCPS wants to use something as a data point for admission, they need to make sure it is available in all middle schools

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Hypothetical Counterpoint: With TJ's advanced math classes, they continue on the path to finally solving Goldbach's conjecture. The underprivileged kid, on the other hand, goes from being top in his high school and getting accepted into Harvard (full ride due to low income) to being bottom of his class at TJ and attending a local college below his potential.

Anonymous wrote:Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Those kids will be fine anywhere while TJ would make a huge difference in an underprivileged child's life trajectory.

Now watch them get rejected from TJ.

Congrats, kids! Good job!

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/2024-rtx-mathcounts-national-competition-highlights

Longfellow and Carson each had a student in he top 12 at National Mathcounts.

VA team earned 7th place team, holding its own against the higher population states with a larger pool of potential performers.

And everyone in the event, from across the whole USA, could school all of us in math.