What would be a decent GPA for a freshman at TJ?

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Please leave! Someone will gladly take his spot and live to earn that C!

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle part of the bell curve

Depending on number of transferred HS courses from middle school,
assuming freshman grades of three A, two A-, one B+, and one B:

unweighted GPA 3.67 to 3.77
weighted GPA 3.87 to 4.03

Consistent with what we have gathered from the counselor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

DP. You are correct that families of TJ students are typically very concerned about grades and that incoming freshman have As in middle school. You are incorrect about grades at TJ though. GPAs at TJ are lower than base high schools. All As are unrealistic and even Cs happen.

Don't be that parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

[Anonymous]

The attempt to portray C and D grades as normal or average at TJ is misleading and simply not reflective of the school's standards. Students who struggle often choose to return to their base schools during freshman year. Encouraging them to stay and accept low grades as normal, especially for the sake of supporting a political agenda, is unfair to those students and their academic futures.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The attempt to portray C and D grades as normal or average at TJ is misleading and simply not reflective of the school's standards. Students who struggle often choose to return to their base schools during freshman year. Encouraging them to stay and accept low grades as normal, especially for the sake of supporting a political agenda, is unfair to those students and their academic futures.

100%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

You are the troll trying hard to associate low grades to high achieving students when in fact it's the low achieving ones that are admitted to support political agenda. It's not working.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

You are the troll trying hard to associate low grades to high achieving students when in fact it's the low achieving ones that are admitted to support political agenda. It's not working.

I am completely against the admissions change and think the school should go back to testing students to make sure they have the ability to succeed at TJ. I’m not saying my high achieving son would get a C, I’m expecting As. I’m saying that other people’s low achieving students should go back to their base schools if they are getting bad grades and ruining their chances of getting into a good college. Any student who has only taken Algebra I in 8th grade is a wild card when it comes to math. There are about 50 kids at our middle school in Honors Algebra II this year, those students would all be fine with the rigor of TJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

Learning is not only about grades. I don’t know your kid. There’s a chance that he’ll do amazing at TJ, with or without effort.

I personally am ok (not happy at the slightest) that my kid gets a C if the school is an overall good fit.

Different kids have different challenges and IQ alone doesn’t help get good grades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

LOL well you'll be hiring a tutor or 2 pretty quickly then. You have no idea how impossible grading is at TJ. I half think that some of the problems my student was asked to solve weren't actually solved by the teacher before assigning it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

LOL well you'll be hiring a tutor or 2 pretty quickly then. You have no idea how impossible grading is at TJ. I half think that some of the problems my student was asked to solve weren't actually solved by the teacher before assigning it.

Grading is tough at TJ but also consistent. Students should do their assigned homework and practice material. DC was surprised the first couple of times and it was really tough grading, but once they understood why points are being lost, they did not repeat the mistakes. This is actually very good practice for college. A fair question is if they need to be at that level of rigor, but it is also why you would want to go to TJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school. I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year. Our family has high educational expectations. C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year. It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start. As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school. If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).

Funny. This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children. It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card. I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned. TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness.

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman. He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations. Having a C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class. I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go. Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.

Learning is not only about grades. I don’t know your kid. There’s a chance that he’ll do amazing at TJ, with or without effort.

I personally am ok (not happy at the slightest) that my kid gets a C if the school is an overall good fit.

Different kids have different challenges and IQ alone doesn’t help get good grades.

You can get an A without really understanding the material, but it's extremely unlikely to get a C while really understanding the material. An A doesn't say much, but a C (even at TJ) says a lot.