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Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

By making TJ like any other high school?

How is he making TJ like any other high school?

One of the things that TJ has been known for and what distinguishes it from other high schools in the area is the emphasis on interdisciplinary and team-taught courses. Several of those options were cut this year, with more cut next year. It has been very clear that Mukai does not care about interdisciplinary courses and only cares about AP numbers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

He's making TJ exactly West Springfield. It's ridiculous. Plus, all those classes won't run. They won't have enough kids interested.

Not only that, but he is incredibly biased about what classes should be promoted more than others, at the expense of losing great teachers that have been at TJ for many years.

De-emphasizing the Spanish department is doing TJ freshman a favor. It was an unnecessarily difficult class that dragged down too many students.

He is promoting more AP classes but from what I can tell, the rigor is exactly the same as the regular classes from prior years.
AP Math, AP English, AP History. He is relieving a long standing GPA weighting issue that didn't reflect rigor.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

He's making TJ exactly West Springfield. It's ridiculous. Plus, all those classes won't run. They won't have enough kids interested.

Sure, that's a concern for electives every year.

Sometimes they don't always have every math or science course either. They don't always have enough students for number theory or concrete math, do they?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

By making TJ like any other high school?

How is he making TJ like any other high school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

By making TJ like any other high school?

+1
I like the guy (and I liked Dr B too) but this is my sr TJ kid's complaint. They've been stripping out some of the things that makes it different.

The AP courses generally have less rigor than the TJ courses they are replacing. This is apparently what the Commonwealth of Virginia wants to see. But don’t be fooled; these are not “great new electives.” They are FCPS sending tax dollars to College Board. Hopefully TJ faculty will be able to add extra curricular materials to the basic AP content; TJ kids are capable of so much more.

AP precalculus is just a dumb class. I would rather see a non-AP +1 precalc class. It's just another addition to my AP bill. Got one for my junior for $400. This is a lot of money.

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Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

What exactly is your definition of academically excellent? By adding all those new AP classes, the kids will stop taking a balanced course load of TJ-specific classes created and taught by experts. That's why we picked TJ--this is a shame. Every kid is going to look exactly the same on paper and they'll all be burned out. There's literally nothing special about it anymore. Watch all the amazing teachers leave now that their programs are gone.

Are any of the AP science courses double-period?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

He's making TJ exactly West Springfield. It's ridiculous. Plus, all those classes won't run. They won't have enough kids interested.

Not only that, but he is incredibly biased about what classes should be promoted more than others, at the expense of losing great teachers that have been at TJ for many years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

He's making TJ exactly West Springfield. It's ridiculous. Plus, all those classes won't run. They won't have enough kids interested.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

By making TJ like any other high school?

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.

Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/Course%20Selection%20Sheet%20V.12.15.25.pdf

A lot of new language options and new english options and more.