Anonymous
05/31/2025 19:47
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Withdrawal is on the transcript but doesn’t affect GPA.
Unlike college, in high school Withdrawal is worse than D grade, affects GPA. Same as getting F
Anonymous
05/31/2025 09:53
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Withdrawal is on the transcript but doesn’t affect GPA.
Anonymous
05/31/2025 09:40
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
A 3.0 or slightly below is a B- average. That's still well above a C. I don't see the big deal.
Anonymous
05/31/2025 09:34
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:OP: TJ students are allowed to drop the class even in the last weeks of the year due to low grade so that gpa does not suffer. Why would you think anyone would be sent back to base school?
GPA will suffer, and dropping course is not easy, else everyone with would be dropping courses near year-end.
During the first quarter: Students can drop a class without it affecting their transcript. But full-time status may get affected if not enrolled in another course.
After the first quarter report cards are distributed, and until the end of the third quarter: Dropping a class will result in a WP or WF on the transcript. Impacts GPA
Fourth quarter: Dropping a class requires principal permission and will result in either WP or F (failing) on the transcript. Impacts GPA
Anonymous
05/31/2025 08:41
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:OP: TJ students are allowed to drop the class even in the last weeks of the year due to low grade so that gpa does not suffer. Why would you think anyone would be sent back to base school?
It’s true. There is a rule that kids have to maintain 3.0 GPA as well as passing grades on all the TJ required courses for graduation. TJ has additional required courses for graduation than other FCPS high schools. If they don’t pass those required courses or their GPA they are possibly sent back.
Anonymous
05/31/2025 01:12
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DPAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.
Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student. But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.
Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.
That’s the whole problem with using essays to select students. They are selecting students who have writing skills, but not necessarily STEM schools. At Cooper some of the math counts/science Olympiad students in Honors Algebra II were waitlisted, while a student in Algebra I without any stem club experience was admitted.
Diversity objective is at odds with merit qualifications.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 21:55
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
My kid is a TJ and doing fine (above a 3.0 unweighted) and loves the kids, but the teachers are the absolute worst. They literally guve no Fs. It's not a supportive learning environment by any stretch of the imagination.
They think they're college professors and treat these 15 year old like their 19. They're used to 15 year old that can learn like 19 year old.
There are always bad apples out there, but truly my child is either very unlucky and got the worst they have to offer or they have a lot of teachers that really don't care anymore. Jaded.
I went to HYPSM and most professors were amazing. Very few were actually aholes to the students. You can have a brutal academic environment and not be heartless.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 20:05
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:DPAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.
Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student. But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.
Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.
That’s the whole problem with using essays to select students. They are selecting students who have writing skills, but not necessarily STEM schools. At Cooper some of the math counts/science Olympiad students in Honors Algebra II were waitlisted, while a student in Algebra I without any stem club experience was admitted.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 18:16
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
My kid is a TJ and doing fine (above a 3.0 unweighted) and loves the kids, but the teachers are the absolute worst. They literally guve no Fs. It's not a supportive learning environment by any stretch of the imagination.
The teachers are the worst because they give no Fs? I am confused by this statement.
Fs is short for fcks
Anonymous
05/30/2025 18:16
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DPAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.
Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student. But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.
Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.
Having read this board for a long time I can tell you that there were people scratching their head at who was selected in the Quant Q era as well. Just because there are kids who scream "TJ" at many schools doesn't mean that those kids want to go to TJ. They might be saying they want to go but that could be because of parental pressure. There were ways in the Quant Q era to tell the admin team that you didn't want to go to TJ just like there are ways today. Not every high scoring MS wants to attend TJ and the smart ones used the tests to let that be known. Then they could blame the admission process and go to their base HS without getting in trouble with their parents.
The confusion isn't about who doesn't get in. The confusion is about who does get in.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 17:51
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
OP: TJ students are allowed to drop the class even in the last weeks of the year due to low grade so that gpa does not suffer. Why would you think anyone would be sent back to base school?
Anonymous
05/30/2025 17:42
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
My kid is a TJ and doing fine (above a 3.0 unweighted) and loves the kids, but the teachers are the absolute worst. They literally guve no Fs. It's not a supportive learning environment by any stretch of the imagination.
The teachers are the worst because they give no Fs? I am confused by this statement.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 09:32
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DPAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.
Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student. But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.
Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.
Having read this board for a long time I can tell you that there were people scratching their head at who was selected in the Quant Q era as well. Just because there are kids who scream "TJ" at many schools doesn't mean that those kids want to go to TJ. They might be saying they want to go but that could be because of parental pressure. There were ways in the Quant Q era to tell the admin team that you didn't want to go to TJ just like there are ways today. Not every high scoring MS wants to attend TJ and the smart ones used the tests to let that be known. Then they could blame the admission process and go to their base HS without getting in trouble with their parents.
This! +100
They might just needs a better shampoo.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 08:27
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:DPAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.
Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student. But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.
Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.
Having read this board for a long time I can tell you that there were people scratching their head at who was selected in the Quant Q era as well. Just because there are kids who scream "TJ" at many schools doesn't mean that those kids want to go to TJ. They might be saying they want to go but that could be because of parental pressure. There were ways in the Quant Q era to tell the admin team that you didn't want to go to TJ just like there are ways today. Not every high scoring MS wants to attend TJ and the smart ones used the tests to let that be known. Then they could blame the admission process and go to their base HS without getting in trouble with their parents.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 08:16
Subject: Does TJ send kids back to their home school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.
It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.
My kid is a TJ and doing fine (above a 3.0 unweighted) and loves the kids, but the teachers are the absolute worst. They literally guve no Fs. It's not a supportive learning environment by any stretch of the imagination.
They think they're college professors and treat these 15 year old like their 19. They're used to 15 year old that can learn like 19 year old.