Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As another example, as of about 2012, when I tried to call the school's attention to it, no one at Cooper claimed to have heard of this math program held at TJ every year (for many years) called the Intermediate Math Open which is a FUN thing, for any middle school in the area (private or public). It has nothing to do with TJ admissions or AAP. It is about making math fun. Every school gets invited. It set a great tone for DC's time at Longfellow to get invited. But there has to be a teacher willing to spend part of a Saturday at TJ. I think the invitation may have gotten filed in the circular file at Cooper though I am certain they are at least 7 kids interested enough to attend from Cooper. It's not the kids -they may not have even been told about the opportunity. The organization (and enough effort and discipline to sustain it) has to come from the school.

http://activities.tjhsst.edu/vmt/?schedule

Zombie update:

Cooper attended TJIMO this year and was the biggest performing VA middle school.
(High performing at TJIMO is slightly strange -- it's aimed at novices, and hyper advanced post-Geometry students are not invited)

Since they don't form school teams, how was it that Cooper did so well?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As another example, as of about 2012, when I tried to call the school's attention to it, no one at Cooper claimed to have heard of this math program held at TJ every year (for many years) called the Intermediate Math Open which is a FUN thing, for any middle school in the area (private or public). It has nothing to do with TJ admissions or AAP. It is about making math fun. Every school gets invited. It set a great tone for DC's time at Longfellow to get invited. But there has to be a teacher willing to spend part of a Saturday at TJ. I think the invitation may have gotten filed in the circular file at Cooper though I am certain they are at least 7 kids interested enough to attend from Cooper. It's not the kids -they may not have even been told about the opportunity. The organization (and enough effort and discipline to sustain it) has to come from the school.

http://activities.tjhsst.edu/vmt/?schedule

Zombie update:

Cooper attended TJIMO this year and was the biggest performing VA middle school.
(High performing at TJIMO is slightly strange -- it's aimed at novices, and hyper advanced post-Geometry students are not invited)

Anonymous wrote:As another example, as of about 2012, when I tried to call the school's attention to it, no one at Cooper claimed to have heard of this math program held at TJ every year (for many years) called the Intermediate Math Open which is a FUN thing, for any middle school in the area (private or public). It has nothing to do with TJ admissions or AAP. It is about making math fun. Every school gets invited. It set a great tone for DC's time at Longfellow to get invited. But there has to be a teacher willing to spend part of a Saturday at TJ. I think the invitation may have gotten filed in the circular file at Cooper though I am certain they are at least 7 kids interested enough to attend from Cooper. It's not the kids -they may not have even been told about the opportunity. The organization (and enough effort and discipline to sustain it) has to come from the school.

http://activities.tjhsst.edu/vmt/?schedule

Anonymous wrote:Guessing tonight's AAP info session at Kilmer will be postponed....?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As another example, as of about 2012, when I tried to call the school's attention to it, no one at Cooper claimed to have heard of this math program held at TJ every year (for many years) called the Intermediate Math Open which is a FUN thing, for any middle school in the area (private or public). It has nothing to do with TJ admissions or AAP. It is about making math fun. Every school gets invited. It set a great tone for DC's time at Longfellow to get invited. But there has to be a teacher willing to spend part of a Saturday at TJ. I think the invitation may have gotten filed in the circular file at Cooper though I am certain they are at least 7 kids interested enough to attend from Cooper. It's not the kids -they may not have even been told about the opportunity. The organization (and enough effort and discipline to sustain it) has to come from the school.

http://activities.tjhsst.edu/vmt/?schedule

Why are you claiming to have a child at both Cooper AND Longfellow? And by the way: this happened two years ago?

Anonymous wrote:As another example, as of about 2012, when I tried to call the school's attention to it, no one at Cooper claimed to have heard of this math program held at TJ every year (for many years) called the Intermediate Math Open which is a FUN thing, for any middle school in the area (private or public). It has nothing to do with TJ admissions or AAP. It is about making math fun. Every school gets invited. It set a great tone for DC's time at Longfellow to get invited. But there has to be a teacher willing to spend part of a Saturday at TJ. I think the invitation may have gotten filed in the circular file at Cooper though I am certain they are at least 7 kids interested enough to attend from Cooper. It's not the kids -they may not have even been told about the opportunity. The organization (and enough effort and discipline to sustain it) has to come from the school.

http://activities.tjhsst.edu/vmt/?schedule

Anonymous wrote:No i don't think it is necessarily the kids' issue but I do believe that Longfellow is run in a more organized and streamlined way that facilitates things like progress to classes without yelling and scuffling in the halls and polite attention paid in classes. By all students at Longfellow, not just AAP. But in fairness to Cooper, I suggested that parents visit the schools and classes to compare. In my experience, many parents who claim to be happy with Cooper have never visited Longfellow.