Does TJ send kids back to their home school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

The kid can just tell his friends that TJ was interesting but not a great fit and he wanted to go back to his/her base school. They don’t have to tell anyone that their GPA was under a 3.0.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

Students will be happy switching to a school that fits his/her learning needs. It is the parents' vanity forcing students staying and suffering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

Students will be happy switching to a school that fits his/her learning needs. It is the parents' vanity forcing students staying and suffering.

Parents are equally lost unable to evaluate fit right up front whether their offered student has the required qualifications to take on TJ rigor. When the TJ admissions office extends an offer, parents naturally assume that their student has been thoroughly evaluated and is qualified to succeed, and not suffer with bad grades and forced to attend remediation or return to base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

My child at TJ is just below a 4.0 unweighted at present. However, my child did hear from other students in IBET/IBEST group the 3.0 guideline is more of a suggestion and not a strictly enforced rule.

Know of one freshman returning to base next year because they miss their friends, not because of grades. But my child also heard from a few students who are either struggling or are only at TJ because the parents forced them to go (please don’t force your child to go if they really do not want to be at TJ).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

Students will be happy switching to a school that fits his/her learning needs. It is the parents' vanity forcing students staying and suffering.

Parents are equally lost unable to evaluate fit right up front whether their offered student has the required qualifications to take on TJ rigor. When the TJ admissions office extends an offer, parents naturally assume that their student has been thoroughly evaluated and is qualified to succeed, and not suffer with bad grades and forced to attend remediation or return to base school.

Parents should be able to see if their kids' grades are low and if their kid is stressed and help them to make a decision that fits their needs. Ther eality is that no application process is going to guarentee that someone succeeds in a particular position or at a particular school. People are accepted to schools at a variety of ages who meet all the qualifications and fail or decide that it is not a good fit. I completed a PhD, half of my cohort dropped out. I probably had the lowest GRE score of those in my class, I test poorly due to LDs and ADHD. You have no clue who is going to rise to the occasion and who is going to struggle or choose to leave.

And it could be that some of those kids with Cs and Bs at TJ are happy with the school and what they are doing there. Maybe they were bullied in MS and knew that they would have fewer people at their base school who had an interest in STEM.

But the kids who return to their base school should just tell their classmates that they wanted to return to a school with their friends and leave it at that. No one has to know what their grades were or why they returned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

Students will be happy switching to a school that fits his/her learning needs. It is the parents' vanity forcing students staying and suffering.

Parents are equally lost unable to evaluate fit right up front whether their offered student has the required qualifications to take on TJ rigor. When the TJ admissions office extends an offer, parents naturally assume that their student has been thoroughly evaluated and is qualified to succeed, and not suffer with bad grades and forced to attend remediation or return to base school.

Parents should be able to see if their kids' grades are low and if their kid is stressed and help them to make a decision that fits their needs. Ther eality is that no application process is going to guarentee that someone succeeds in a particular position or at a particular school. People are accepted to schools at a variety of ages who meet all the qualifications and fail or decide that it is not a good fit. I completed a PhD, half of my cohort dropped out. I probably had the lowest GRE score of those in my class, I test poorly due to LDs and ADHD. You have no clue who is going to rise to the occasion and who is going to struggle or choose to leave.

And it could be that some of those kids with Cs and Bs at TJ are happy with the school and what they are doing there. Maybe they were bullied in MS and knew that they would have fewer people at their base school who had an interest in STEM.

But the kids who return to their base school should just tell their classmates that they wanted to return to a school with their friends and leave it at that. No one has to know what their grades were or why they returned.

Casualties of equity politics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

My kid is a TJ and doing fine (above a 3.0 unweighted) and loves the kids, but the teachers are the absolute worst. They literally guve no Fs. It's not a supportive learning environment by any stretch of the imagination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.

2025 Division B (middle school) winners



2025 Division C (high school) winners

Here you go, proof.

Since I’m not privy to actual stats from TJ, this is the next best thing.

These are the division b and c winners of this year’s Science Olympiad National Tournament. Even if you want to argue that there are a lot of Asians in California so the picture is a reflection of the population, how are you going to explain Texas?

Stop making this about race. It should be about smarts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.

2025 Division B (middle school) winners



2025 Division C (high school) winners

Here you go, proof.

Since I’m not privy to actual stats from TJ, this is the next best thing.

These are the division b and c winners of this year’s Science Olympiad National Tournament. Even if you want to argue that there are a lot of Asians in California so the picture is a reflection of the population, how are you going to explain Texas?

Stop making this about race[b]. It should be about smarts.

This is actually my intent.
So this random picture is a proof that among 2k students of all race in TJ, the “non asian” is the struggle one?
And there are none asian that struggle and there are none “non asian” - that thriving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.

2025 Division B (middle school) winners



2025 Division C (high school) winners

Here you go, proof.

Since I’m not privy to actual stats from TJ, this is the next best thing.

These are the division b and c winners of this year’s Science Olympiad National Tournament. Even if you want to argue that there are a lot of Asians in California so the picture is a reflection of the population, how are you going to explain Texas?

Stop making this about race. It should be about smarts.

You're a special kind of ignorant. Texas has one of the largest Asian/S Asian populations outside of California and Edison, NJ.

[Anonymous]

Due to the nature of the current essay lottery admission, which brings in a mix of well-qualified and struggling students, no one disputes that the qualified half continues to excel and earn accolades, such as these Science Olympiad wins. The concern is with the other half—students who have required TJ to introduce remedial support, something that was never necessary before the essay lottery admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though.

Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.

It is unjust and unethical to admit underprepared students solely for the sake of diversity, only to have them struggle academically with poor grades and endure the emotional burden of having to return to their base school.

It is unjust and unethical to assume that “non asian” is the ones who struggle academically and with poor grades, and need to return to base school ….. unless you can show proof.

DP

Selecting students based on an essay is just as likely to select an underprepared Asian as an underprepared URM or white student. But the reason we are selecting underprepared students through the current process is because we wanted the diversity.

Any parent at feeder schools that is paying attention will tell you that the current process is selecting some students that are real head scratchers.