TJ and soft skills

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TJ turns quiet, nerdy introverts into confident, capable leaders. Over 130 clubs and countless leadership, coordination, and officer roles to fill. Many opportunities for nerds to step up, and they take on the challenge without hesitation. Many of the competition/contest events, holiday celebrations, and the flagship iNite organized by TJ Namaste student group, are all managed by nerds with many hundreds of participants and are organized with impressive professionalism.

Hahahaha! You wish.

I see it turn quiet introverted kids into verbally competitive kids about academics. Yes there are tons of clubs, but they merely serve to be listed on college applications.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBPfulqH1fWrE8EkZTpJz-1I-NTR4oE4g&feature=shared

Seem to be much more than academics

It is. Yes there are academic ECs but also many other non-academic ones.

The honor societies are dance squads at TJ? I also saw pep rally videos of dance squads by grades. A lot of dancing at TJ!!!!

[Anonymous]

Soft skills? How about you parent your son to become a man. The school cannot teach everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds amazing, and what I want for DS! How is P.E. at tj? With the above description, I’m thinking not too stressful for my non athletic DS?

The PE classes are as academically rigorous as PE classes can be. The grades are based on written exams. It's actually kind of BS that kids have to memorize the tournament roles for badminton and the international governing body for ultimate frizbee and stuff like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of current student. I don't know of anything that they do that would help nurture leadership or communication skills other than the group work projects and the presentations.

However, my socially quiet student has become more outgoing because there are possibly (probably?) more introverted students at TJ than at our base school. So it has given them a bit more space to speak up on their terms.

There's the 2nd paragraph, for sure. It's a thing.

There's also intentionally choosing to get involved in 8th period clubs that nurture communications skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds amazing, and what I want for DS! How is P.E. at tj? With the above description, I’m thinking not too stressful for my non athletic DS?

The PE classes are as academically rigorous as PE classes can be. The grades are based on written exams. It's actually kind of BS that kids have to memorize the tournament roles for badminton and the international governing body for ultimate frizbee and stuff like that.

My kid did both 9th and 10th PE at TJ with no issues. But apparently there is one teacher who is a bit demanding but not all that bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds amazing, and what I want for DS! How is P.E. at tj? With the above description, I’m thinking not too stressful for my non athletic DS?

The PE classes are as academically rigorous as PE classes can be. The grades are based on written exams. It's actually kind of BS that kids have to memorize the tournament roles for badminton and the international governing body for ultimate frizbee and stuff like that.

Are you joking about memorizing ultimate frisbee and badminton rules?

[Anonymous]

Definitely seeing quiet 9th grade TJ students become more outgoing and involved— there’s the early safety of the IBET core, for one thing, so they get a peer group across multiple classes, and some of it is just maturity happening— but the biggest influence is being around outgoing upperclassmen who encourage and support them. Also: many TJ kids are very good at sports and are social butterflies— they are usually quite welcoming to the quiet non-athlete types, too. Don’t be surprised when your so-called “nerd” tries out for a sport and turns out to be more athletic than you thought possible. That happens at TJ.

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Which sports are less competitive to join? My DS enjoys tennis, but has never played competitively. Or how is golf for a beginner?

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I think a lot of people start crew that never did it before.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of people start crew that never did it before.

+1. There are a few middle school programs out there, but it's not an expectation that you've done it. And lots of kids who consider themselves unathletic end up flourishing as rowers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds amazing, and what I want for DS! How is P.E. at tj? With the above description, I’m thinking not too stressful for my non athletic DS?

The PE classes are as academically rigorous as PE classes can be. The grades are based on written exams. It's actually kind of BS that kids have to memorize the tournament roles for badminton and the international governing body for ultimate frizbee and stuff like that.

My kid did both 9th and 10th PE at TJ with no issues. But apparently there is one teacher who is a bit demanding but not all that bad.

No it's not horrible. Spanish is far worse but it's funny that PE has academic rigor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds amazing, and what I want for DS! How is P.E. at tj? With the above description, I’m thinking not too stressful for my non athletic DS?

The PE classes are as academically rigorous as PE classes can be. The grades are based on written exams. It's actually kind of BS that kids have to memorize the tournament roles for badminton and the international governing body for ultimate frizbee and stuff like that.

Are you joking about memorizing ultimate frisbee and badminton rules?

Apparently the history of ultimate frizbee was on a test this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which sports are less competitive to join? My DS enjoys tennis, but has never played competitively. Or how is golf for a beginner?

All the more individual sports can be competitive. Team sports are less competitive. These kids did not prioritize sports growing up and if sports are not a priority, team sports are hard to develop.

I would look at football and baseball or lacrosse in the spring. There are a number of *no cut" sports.