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Anonymous wrote:The LCPS Academies model with kids going to their base school for History, English, PE, foreign Language/music, and then going to the Academy (or TJ in this case) for the other day to do Science, Math, Tech types of classes makes SO MUCH SENSE!

It allows kids to keep their base school connections, reduced commuting burdens, gives TWICE as many kids access to very top-level STEM classes/peers, and allows the specialty school to actually focus on the SPECIALTY (STEM) without being bogged down with kids who can't pass English or Spanish or whatever.

Let TJ focus on STEM and let twice as many kids have access.

It makes no sense at all.

Do you remember high school? At all?

Anonymous wrote:They need to put an upper bound on the percentage at these schools because it seems heavily skewed in favor of wealthier schools where people have the $$$ to buy enrichment. These programs should benefit all bright county residents, not unfairly benefit the wealthiest.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

+1 they have trouble getting kids from southern Fairfax county to attend, that’s a lot closer than most of prince William

Lot of Indians are moving to PWC to gain admission to TJ.

I don't believe that, but that's what they did in Loudoun so maybe. How do you know?

There were hardly any Indians at the main bus stop (PWC) 10 years ago and it is almost all Indians now. That's how I know.

That would have nothing to do with TJ.

The bus stop is for the TJ students.

Anonymous wrote:The LCPS Academies model with kids going to their base school for History, English, PE, foreign Language/music, and then going to the Academy (or TJ in this case) for the other day to do Science, Math, Tech types of classes makes SO MUCH SENSE!

It allows kids to keep their base school connections, reduced commuting burdens, gives TWICE as many kids access to very top-level STEM classes/peers, and allows the specialty school to actually focus on the SPECIALTY (STEM) without being bogged down with kids who can't pass English or Spanish or whatever.

Let TJ focus on STEM and let twice as many kids have access.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

+1 they have trouble getting kids from southern Fairfax county to attend, that’s a lot closer than most of prince William

Lot of Indians are moving to PWC to gain admission to TJ.

I don't believe that, but that's what they did in Loudoun so maybe. How do you know?

There were hardly any Indians at the main bus stop (PWC) 10 years ago and it is almost all Indians now. That's how I know.

That would have nothing to do with TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

+1 they have trouble getting kids from southern Fairfax county to attend, that’s a lot closer than most of prince William

Lot of Indians are moving to PWC to gain admission to TJ.

I don't believe that, but that's what they did in Loudoun so maybe. How do you know?

There were hardly any Indians at the main bus stop (PWC) 10 years ago and it is almost all Indians now. That's how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

+1 they have trouble getting kids from southern Fairfax county to attend, that’s a lot closer than most of prince William

Lot of Indians are moving to PWC to gain admission to TJ.

I don't believe that, but that's what they did in Loudoun so maybe. How do you know?

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

+1 they have trouble getting kids from southern Fairfax county to attend, that’s a lot closer than most of prince William

Lot of Indians are moving to PWC to gain admission to TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

+1 they have trouble getting kids from southern Fairfax county to attend, that’s a lot closer than most of prince William

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

No, the distance is a real deterrent. There's no way around it.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

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Anonymous wrote:any idea about home school or out of county (Loudoun, PW) or private school

This is based on FCPS data about "transfers" within FCPS pyramids. The only other thing one can discern from this data is that 68% of current TJ students (1345 in total) live in Fairfax County and the other 32% presumably live in Arlington, FCC, Loudoun, and Prince William. It doesn't tell you whether the students were homeschooled or attended private school before attending TJ.

Interesting. Why does fcps open up TJ to other non FCPS students? Is that stipulated somewhere? With the demand of interest, doesn’t make sense.

TJ isn't an FCPS school, it's a governor's school. It's for all the districts that want it (not ACPS, they have declined).

In fact, FCPS numbers would go down to ~ 40-50% if PWC took all of their spots.

since the no of students is supposed to be allocated according to population of the counties/citi

It should be approximately:

Fairfax 40%, PWC 30%, Loudoun 20%, Arlington 9%, FCC 1%.

This will be the composition in 5 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like my kid can still get in via the automatic 5%. At least it appears that they're making an effort to serve the whole county now.

Agree it's better than just serving the families likely to invest heavy in prep but they need to set an upper bound too. Too many seats going to a handful of wealthy schools is not great.

I seriously doubt GPA 3.95 in some low represented county MS is same as getting GPA of 3.95 in Carson etc. I see these differences even in MS AAP school where feeder local AAP school student level of undertsanding is quiet low compare to student from center AAP schools.