Curie vs AOPS

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Anonymous wrote:I am a TJ alum, who received a merit scholarship to a T-20 university, and now manage a team of AI/ML solution architects. I can understand competitors and individuals for personal reasons holding grudge against Curie, but for me, coming from a lower middle class family, attending Curie personally helped me gain in-depth foundational skills and knowledge in middle school English, Math, and Science at an advanced level that wasnt available at my public school. That solid foundation is what gave me the confidence to enroll in the most challenging TJ coursework and participate in competitive stem teams at national level.

What a sad indictment of our public school system.

Just as MLK envisioned, the entire basketball team should be selected based on each player's individual "preparation" and effort, even if it results in a majority of a single race. There should be no racial balancing.

You didn't take my meaning. I wasn't referring to race. I learned foundational skills and knowledge in English, math and science in public middle school and high school and took the most challenging courses in high school and college. It's too bad that PP wasn't able to and that others are similarly unable to.

Others are spending on other things, just not academics. In Nova, there are more small businesses offering after school non-academic coaching than academic tutoring. Ton of sports related stores compared to a dozen Kumons. More kids dribbling basketball, kicking soccer ball, throwing baseball than kids sitting with math worksheets.

People spend time and money on extra-curriculars. Public school should (and sometimes does) teach foundational and in-depth skills in academics. Going to cram school in the evenings to learn academics is a sign of the failure of public school. (Or else it's a sign of the ambition of parents.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a TJ alum, who received a merit scholarship to a T-20 university, and now manage a team of AI/ML solution architects. I can understand competitors and individuals for personal reasons holding grudge against Curie, but for me, coming from a lower middle class family, attending Curie personally helped me gain in-depth foundational skills and knowledge in middle school English, Math, and Science at an advanced level that wasnt available at my public school. That solid foundation is what gave me the confidence to enroll in the most challenging TJ coursework and participate in competitive stem teams at national level.

What a sad indictment of our public school system.

Just as MLK envisioned, the entire basketball team should be selected based on each player's individual "preparation" and effort, even if it results in a majority of a single race. There should be no racial balancing.

You didn't take my meaning. I wasn't referring to race. I learned foundational skills and knowledge in English, math and science in public middle school and high school and took the most challenging courses in high school and college. It's too bad that PP wasn't able to and that others are similarly unable to.

Others are spending on other things, just not academics. In Nova, there are more small businesses offering after school non-academic coaching than academic tutoring. Ton of sports related stores compared to a dozen Kumons. More kids dribbling basketball, kicking soccer ball, throwing baseball than kids sitting with math worksheets.

People spend time and money on extra-curriculars. Public school should (and sometimes does) teach foundational and in-depth skills in academics. Going to cram school in the evenings to learn academics is a sign of the failure of public school. (Or else it's a sign of the ambition of parents.)

Families spending money on sports is no different that those spending money on academics. Majority of one race uses pubic school resources and gains a ton of college sports scholarships, while others are deprived of those opportunities. Should public school system suppress that majority race? Absolutely not. But unfortunately, same cant be said of TJ and what the majority race there is unfairly being subjected to.

[Anonymous]

Not every post needs to be about TJ admissions. Let’s keep it about answering the actual questions asked.

Thank you to those who tried to answer the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not every post needs to be about TJ admissions. Let’s keep it about answering the actual questions asked.

Thank you to those who tried to answer the question.

As the above post mentioned, Curie is all inclusive STEM middle school enrichment whereas AoPS is just math. No point in comparing the two.

Curie Math component is quite challenging. While our first child found it manageable, our second child chose not to continue after the first few months and was moved to their grade level math, which is still advanced compared to the school's math level.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not every post needs to be about TJ admissions. Let’s keep it about answering the actual questions asked.

Thank you to those who tried to answer the question.

As the above post mentioned, Curie is all inclusive STEM middle school enrichment whereas AoPS is just math. No point in comparing the two.

Curie Math component is quite challenging. While our first child found it manageable, our second child chose not to continue after the first few months and was moved to their grade level math, which is still advanced compared to the school's math level.

Thank you!