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Post 01/15/2025 11:58     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.


Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.


DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.


TJ NEVER limited access to only 4 wealthy feeder middle schools. Certain schools have more kids that meet for the TJ Admissions criteria.

It is very clear that schools with more applicants have historically had more admitted students. Of course if a school has less than 10 applicants they would end up with less than 10 admits. No school with 100 or more applicants had less than 10 admitted students. All of the schools that had less than 10 admits had less than 100 applications. Of the list of schools with more than 10 admitted, only 5 of these schools had less than 100 applicants:

https://www.fcag.org/documents/TJadmitbyMS.Classes2017to2021.pdf

Ranking by Year/School with Highest Admission Rate (Excluding "ts" cases):

Jackson 2018: 56.8% (42 admitted out of 74 tested)
Hughes 2021: 44.0% (22 admitted out of 50 tested)
Longfellow 2021: 39.5% (64 admitted out of 162 tested)
Carson 2020: 37.1% (98 admitted out of 264 tested)
Carson 2019: 35.8% (88 admitted out of 246 tested)
Carson 2018: 34.7% (83 admitted out of 239 tested)
Rocky Run 2017: 34.2% (55 admitted out of 161 tested)
Carson 2017: 29.5% (64 admitted out of 217 tested)
Kilmer 2021: 29.4% (35 admitted out of 119 tested)
Longfellow 2020: 29.0% (45 admitted out of 155 tested)
Longfellow 2017: 25.7% (55 admitted out of 214 tested)
Kilmer 2019: 24.5% (38 admitted out of 155 tested)
Longfellow 2018: 24.1% (54 admitted out of 166 tested)
Frost 2019: 24.1% (21 admitted out of 87 tested)
Hughes 2017: 21.2% (18 admitted out of 85 tested)
Frost 2017: 20.0% (21 admitted out of 105 tested)
Frost 2018: 22.3% (23 admitted out of 103 tested)
Frost 2020: 21.6% (22 admitted out of 102 tested)
Frost 2021: 22.5% (20 admitted out of 89 tested)
Kilmer 2017: 22.5% (38 admitted out of 169 tested)
Rocky Run 2021: 22.8% (39 admitted out of 171 tested)
Kilmer 2018: 19.4% (32 admitted out of 165 tested)
Kilmer 2020: 18.8% (25 admitted out of 133 tested)
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:45     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.


It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.


Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.


DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.

DP or no DP, ... Sockpuppetry shows!
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:39     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.


Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.


DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.

Not really, it should be accessible to "academically qualified" students not just any student. The past four years has shown that kids who are being admitted based on non-academic factors are suffering with poor grades and/or returning to base school. FCPS overwhelmingly wants academically affluent feeders to continue to thrive since that is were most of county's top STEM talent is nurtured. This is similar to how FCPS encourages other athletically affluent feeders.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:07     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.


Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.


DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 09:02     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.


Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:57     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.


There really isn't sufficient data to draw an accurate conclusion. We need to give this a few more years to really assess the changes fairly.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:49     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:47     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.

Similar to how making the SAT optional has hurt UMRs more than any other group, leading to its reinstatement, TJ has no choice but to bring back the test in order to admit qualified students and navigate its way out of the current mess.


Or at least limit enrollment to the right kind of student i.e. those who can afford to purchase the test answers!
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2025 08:47     Subject: New TJ principal announced

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.


Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?


Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?


She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.


It wasn't 75% Asian.

She wasn't singling out Asian families and it wasn't disparaging at all.



Asian enrollment is currently at a historic high.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 19:18     Subject: New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.

Similar to how making the SAT optional has hurt UMRs more than any other group, leading to its reinstatement, TJ has no choice but to bring back the test in order to admit qualified students and navigate its way out of the current mess.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 17:59     Subject: New TJ principal announced

At last FCPS hears TJ community concerns. Welcome new Principal!
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 16:30     Subject: New TJ principal announced

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 16:07     Subject: New TJ principal announced

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.



It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews


It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.


And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.


Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)


The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.


You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!


The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.


A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 16:01     Subject: New TJ principal announced

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.


Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?


Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?


She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.


It wasn't 75% Asian.

She wasn't singling out Asian families and it wasn't disparaging at all.

Anonymous
Post 01/14/2025 15:32     Subject: New TJ principal announced

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.


Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?


Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?


She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.