Anonymous wrote:Nice! Now we have a caste system at TJ. The Top 100, who will be seen as the superstars, and everyone else. That's the way teens are. Invariably, a hierarchy will result, and this will prove devastating.

It’s an incredibly stupid idea that only the likes of Brabrand would propose.

You go to all this trouble of saying other kids are just as deserving of a TJ education as the current students and then you propose set-asides for the ruling class (“top achievers”). It totally undermines the premise for doing something different.

Cannot overstate how little respect I have for this clown.

Anonymous wrote:Nice! Now we have a caste system at TJ. The Top 100, who will be seen as the superstars, and everyone else. That's the way teens are. Invariably, a hierarchy will result, and this will prove devastating.

I see what you did there.

Anonymous wrote:Nice! Now we have a caste system at TJ. The Top 100, who will be seen as the superstars, and everyone else. That's the way teens are. Invariably, a hierarchy will result, and this will prove devastating.

I’m sure those 100 will be real intimidating

Nice! Now we have a caste system at TJ. The Top 100, who will be seen as the superstars, and everyone else. That's the way teens are. Invariably, a hierarchy will result, and this will prove devastating.

This more closely resembles the FCAG recommendation (although I believe they also wanted some kind of math test to make sure kids could handle TJ to begin with)

They are such total idiots. Once they start setting aside seats for so-called “top performers” they are basically admitting their lottery is a complete sham intended only to change the racial composition. And TJ being TJ the students and parents will try to reverse engineer the admissions and figure out which kids got in as “top performers“ and which ones were lottery admits.

Brabrand is the worst superintendent we’ve ever had. He has an uncanny ability to come up with stupid proposals that make no sense. This is the TJ equivalent of the “hybrid model” all over again, and we all know how that worked out.

He should just leave now.

Anonymous wrote:To be accepted into the Revised Merit Lottery, students would
need to meet minimum requirements (unchanged)
• Student Portrait Sheet
• Problem-Solving Essay
• Experience Factors
• The highest-evaluated 100 students would be offered
admissions. The remaining students would be selected
randomly within their pathway.

That's not a bad compromise. The kids who really need TJ will still get to go. Let's face it, if you're not in the top 100, you're better off staying at your home school where you can at least smell the top of your class. The question I have is who wants to sign up to compete with those 100 stud kids if you weren't initially selected to be part of that 100? That's like academic masochism.

To be accepted into the Revised Merit Lottery, students would
need to meet minimum requirements (unchanged)
• Student Portrait Sheet
• Problem-Solving Essay
• Experience Factors
• The highest-evaluated 100 students would be offered
admissions. The remaining students would be selected
randomly within their pathway.

Boarddocs has the new proposal

Application process would remain unchanged from the
original Merit Lottery proposal
Revisions to merit lottery process
 Highest-evaluated students will be offered an opportunity to
fill 20% of available seats (100) based on a holistic review of
their application
 Remaining 400 seats will be filled by merit lottery
 FCPS region slots will be proportional to student enrollment
 Rolling admissions to keep a class of 500

Isn’t town hall on 10/7?

It says working session. Not sure what it means. I thought it’s town Hall meeting? What’s the difference between both?

Who cares? They don’t have anything else to do?

the same thing

Another half-baked idea that can’t be properly executed.

So, what do we think that Brabrand will propose at the school board meeting on 10/6?