Top Tier Boarding school vs. TJ

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What idiot even brings TJ up in a discussion of elite, long standing, private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, Choate, St Paul's, STA and Sidwell? What a joke. TJ is an incredible, fantastic PUBLIC school for brilliant, hard working middle class and recently-arrived UMC kids. TJ is great for those folks but its comparing apples and oranges. Not even the same universe.

You are the idiot. There is only one universe idiot. Not in the same league, not at the same level etc. maybe ok but not "Not in the same universe". See the logic (or lack thereof) of people putting down TJ.

This. Plus it's a sad worldview where kids from 2 professional parent families with graduate degrees (noting that TJ is 1.5% FARMS) are "middle class" or even "recently arrived upper middle class." No wonder the actual middle class hates the 1% so much. Apparently, the 1% looks at parents who are a doctor and a federal lawyer spending 750k-a million dollars on a house who pour the kind of money into kid enrichment that TJ parents do (private music lessons, travel sports teams, tutors, etc) and think-- yeah, that's the struggle of an average, middle class American. And we all wonder how Trump got a foothold. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

+1

Blah blah blah blah. Whatever. Plenty of underachieving TJ alumnae in the world too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

+1

Blah blah blah blah. Whatever. Plenty of underachieving TJ alumnae in the world too.

Underachieving (average) TJ graduates become doctors, lawyers and engineers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

+1

Blah blah blah blah. Whatever. Plenty of underachieving TJ alumnae in the world too.

Underachieving (average) TJ graduates become doctors, lawyers and engineers.

And some of the work at Target. Keep drinking your Kool aid.

[Anonymous]

You know what after reading about GDS and missing a whole week to deal week to deal with diversity issues, it made me thankful for TJ. TJ would never waste students time like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

+1

Blah blah blah blah. Whatever. Plenty of underachieving TJ alumnae in the world too.

Maybe this was true 40 years ago, but it's not true today, at least not on the "it's a given" level that your post suggests. Just look at the school's incoming student GPAs and SSAT scores (not to mention outgoing SAT scores) -- the kids in top boarding schools are top notch kids academically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what after reading about GDS and missing a whole week to deal week to deal with diversity issues, it made me thankful for TJ. TJ would never waste students time like that.

+1

[Anonymous]

Wow the TJ moms/students on this thread have gotten so salty!! TJ is a great public school, you really shouldn't be bitter.

It's not Exeter or Andover. But so what. You wouldn't fit in very well there anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow the TJ moms/students on this thread have gotten so salty!! TJ is a great public school, you really shouldn't be bitter.

It's not Exeter or Andover. But so what. You wouldn't fit in very well there anyway.

Are you this snotty IRL, or do you manage to keep you inner b@tch in check to people's faces and just talk about them behind their back? Clearly, no amount of money can buy some people kindness, common sense, class or tact.

[Anonymous]

The OP who was most likely a troll got what he, she or ze wanted. This thread is a war zone.

[Anonymous]

I don't live in VA and wouldn't consider TJ, but I love reading these threads. They bring out DCUM's craziest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can buy yourself a boarding school education (they love the rich donors), but you cannot buy yourself a TJ education. Everyone knows that. Your son will be respected for coming out of TJ...people will respect the vast wealth his parents must have amassed to get him into that great BS

This.

Daughter

[Anonymous]

TJ parents are one of the nastiest group of people. And dang kids took after their parents. Call them nasty Jrs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would do TJ in a heartbeat for free over 50+k per year for boarding school.

I would too!

This does not even take into account how much we enjoy having our kids be a part of our family and how much we cherish having those last few years with them to experience all their milestones before they become adults and start their lives.

I suppose if we had a strained relationship boarding school would make sense. But since we do not we could not see any real, meaningful advantages to choosing boarding school, no matter how prestigious it may be.