If TJ has such smart kids, why so much cheating?

[Anonymous]

Title has the question?

[Anonymous]

Too much pressure from parents to get highest grades for college admissions.

[Anonymous]

Lazy and/or arrogant.

[Anonymous]

Some students have taken too many hard classes and can't keep up.

[Anonymous]

They had tutors since pre-k and are not really taught to be independent, resilient problem solvers all on their own. They lack grit and tenacity since someone is always leading them.

[Anonymous]

These all apply to students at all top high schools.

A big answer is that parents have not taught and modeled integrity to their children. Honor is unheard of.

[Anonymous]

What so you mean it has “so much cheating”? You provide no facts for your premise. Do you have any or just DCUM randos posting their stereotypes?

[Anonymous]

Cheating has gone up, with increased enrollment of lower level Algebra 1 students being forced to take on TJ rigor.

[Anonymous]

"TJHSST Class of 2025 admitted seven times as many students with minimal math level
required to apply, and almost halved the proportion of students with the highest math level.

Compared to previous years, there is a huge leap in the number of students taking Algebra 1
rather than higher level math. There were 161 students admitted who only had taken Algebra
1.10 In previous years, that number has been about 20 students; 22 admitted students in Class
of 2024 and 21 admitted students in Class of 2023 had only had Algebra 1. "
https://www.fcag.org/documents/TJ_Class_of_2025_analysis.pdf
Cheating has increased exponentially starting with class of 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"TJHSST Class of 2025 admitted seven times as many students with minimal math level
required to apply, and almost halved the proportion of students with the highest math level.

Compared to previous years, there is a huge leap in the number of students taking Algebra 1
rather than higher level math. There were 161 students admitted who only had taken Algebra
1.10 In previous years, that number has been about 20 students; 22 admitted students in Class
of 2024 and 21 admitted students in Class of 2023 had only had Algebra 1. "
https://www.fcag.org/documents/TJ_Class_of_2025_analysis.pdf
Cheating has increased exponentially starting with class of 2025.

OP here: many tj kids cheat…inc ones who were done with geometry+ in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"TJHSST Class of 2025 admitted seven times as many students with minimal math level
required to apply, and almost halved the proportion of students with the highest math level.

Compared to previous years, there is a huge leap in the number of students taking Algebra 1
rather than higher level math. There were 161 students admitted who only had taken Algebra
1.10 In previous years, that number has been about 20 students; 22 admitted students in Class
of 2024 and 21 admitted students in Class of 2023 had only had Algebra 1. "
https://www.fcag.org/documents/TJ_Class_of_2025_analysis.pdf
Cheating has increased exponentially starting with class of 2025.

Your last sentence is unsupported. And false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Cheating has gone up, with increased enrollment of lower level Algebra 1 students being forced to take on TJ rigor.

Why would you think that? You think these kids are inferior - but why do you think that? So strange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"TJHSST Class of 2025 admitted seven times as many students with minimal math level required to apply, and almost halved the proportion of students with the highest math level.

Compared to previous years, there is a huge leap in the number of students taking Algebra 1 rather than higher level math. There were 161 students admitted who only had taken Algebra 1. In previous years, that number has been about 20 students; 22 admitted students in Class of 2024 and 21 admitted students in Class of 2023 had only had Algebra 1. "
https://www.fcag.org/documents/TJ_Class_of_2025_analysis.pdf
Cheating has increased exponentially starting with class of 2025.

TJ should emphasize honor code during regular as well as remedial classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much pressure from parents to get highest grades for college admissions.

+1

Parents expect their kids to achieve in ways they themselves never did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Cheating has gone up, with increased enrollment of lower level Algebra 1 students being forced to take on TJ rigor.

Citation that it’s “gone up”

Because cheating has been well documented for years. It’s nothing new.