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Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

What kind of broken English nonsense is this? Try harder. Buy a grammar book and a dictionary. Unintelligible is an understatement.

Ok. English professor, post link to buy grammar book and a dictionary.

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Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

What kind of broken English nonsense is this? Try harder. Buy a grammar book and a dictionary. Unintelligible is an understatement.

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Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

What kind of broken English nonsense is this? Try harder. Buy a grammar book and a dictionary. Unintelligible is an understatement.

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Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

This may be true for past students, but affirmative action in college admissions is no longer allowed. Admissions committees for colleges are not allow to use race as a benefit for students anymore. Now students in the bottom 20-30% will be looked at the same no matter their race.

Many Black students graduating in the top 10% of their class from base schools across Virginia and the rest of the country have a stronger chance of gaining admission to T20 and Ivy League schools than the Black students graduating in the bottom 20% at TJ.

There are black students graduating top 10% at TJ that got rejected from T20.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

This may be true for past students, but affirmative action in college admissions is no longer allowed. Admissions committees for colleges are not allow to use race as a benefit for students anymore. Now students in the bottom 20-30% will be looked at the same no matter their race.

Many Black students graduating in the top 10% of their class from base schools across Virginia and the rest of the country have a stronger chance of gaining admission to T20 and Ivy League schools than the Black students graduating in the bottom 20% at TJ.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

This may be true for past students, but affirmative action in college admissions is no longer allowed. Admissions committees for colleges are not allow to use race as a benefit for students anymore. Now students in the bottom 20-30% will be looked at the same no matter their race.

Things may change when Trump' s term is over .

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Anonymous wrote:Hi All,

Wondering how it works if you want to transfer back to base school from TJ. Do grades follow you and impact final grade? When is the ideal time to make the switch? DC is absolutely drowning in work and not doing well on assessments. It’s very defeating.

I believe if you transfer back now, your grades will not follow you, but at some point they cannot ignore your performance at TJ. If you transfer back after the semester or year is over, I think your grades follow you. One bad semester can be explained away, 4 bad years cannot.
I think the principal requests to counsel you and your child before you decide to return.
She will likely suggest using the 8th period to take advantage of tutoring that is available for students.

I would at least to what she has to say but she has her own agenda and that isn't necessarily in the best interests of your child.
She's not a monster but the number of students that returned to their base schools jumped from like 4-5 a year to as high as 40 when they started the new admissions process and she implemented all sorts of ways to reduce that number. One of the ways was requesting to counsel your family on other options.
These remedial measures have helped a lot of kids keep their head above water and get on track to graduate with a respectable GPA. If you are poor then there is some value to graduating from TJ with a decent GPA. If you are UMC and drowning at TJ, take your child and leave, you aren't helping them by keeping them there.

Is this true?
For students transfer back to the base high school, can they retake the courses at the base school to replace the grades they get at TJ?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change, and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.

Black students in the bottom 30% of TJ goes to Ivies. Therefore, if a black student, stay and graduate even if it means graduating in the bottom 20-30%. Everyone else, go back to base school to improve the gpa.

This may be true for past students, but affirmative action in college admissions is no longer allowed. Admissions committees for colleges are not allow to use race as a benefit for students anymore. Now students in the bottom 20-30% will be looked at the same no matter their race.