TJ prep in 6th grade?!
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Anonymous
| My DD told me that few of her classmates won't be able to have playdates with her since they have started attending TJ prep classes every weekend. And it lasts for a year. I never thought of putting my DD to any tutoring centers or TJ prep, but to be honest, I felt a bit pressure after my DD conversation. Do you? |
Anonymous
| If you do send her to prep, she will have a hard time at TJ. People who succeed at TJ do not go to prep. |
Anonymous
We are not trying for TJ, so it doesn't matter to me, but it seems awfully presumptuous that you know every TJ success story and whether they prepped. |
Anonymous
New poster here. There are lots of kids at TJ who took the kind of prep classes you refer to and lots who did not. Many kids in both groups are successful there. My child knows kids in his class who have been asked to leave and kids who chose to leave on their own. Interestingly, most of the kids my child knows who have left the school went to prep classes when they were in middle school. Some didn't really want to be there in the first place, some were simply in over their heads academically, even with lots of outside help and tutoring. My child and the others we know who did not do prep classes have all done fine. Obviously, these are anecdotal observations. I wish TJ would survey kids on who took prep classes in middle school and who did not and keep track of how many in each group end up leaving the school before graduation. |
Anonymous
You mean you didn't start earlier? Doom, OP!
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Anonymous
You are right. I apologize for my inaccurate statement. What I should have said was that kids who made it into TJ on their own TEND to do better than those who prepped. 
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Anonymous
| No, we have not and will not do TJ prep. Now, I'm Asian and my kids are interested in math and science and high achievers so far so people assume that we are doing it. That pisses me off. |
Anonymous
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I thought many start in 5th grade BTW - it goes on until 8th grade!
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Anonymous
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One wonders what they're prepping for. If it's the test, that's kind of pathetic since most TJ kids who take it say it's fairly easy. My recollection is that my unprepped son missed one question on the entire thing.
Be glad, OP, that you're sensible enough not to be caught up in a race to nowhere frenzy that starts with 10 and 11 year olds. |
Anonymous
| TJ mom here -- everybody prepped in 6th & 7th grade. |
Anonymous
| I wonder if this is why Carson kids have a higher rate of admission... is it a prep-centric area? I'm 99% certain no one at Twain is "prepping." They either get in or they don't. Twain is a smaller program... people just aren't gunning for TJ as much. I'm sure some are, but not to the extent that their parents would pay thousands of dollars for prep classes. |
Anonymous
Another TJ mom here. My child did not prep and we know many other kids who did not prep. We knew some kids who prepped in sixth and seventh grade when my child was in middle school, but I would not say that everyone at TJ prepped. |
Anonymous
| troll |
Anonymous
Exactly. The posters who say all kids prepped are just trying to justify why their supposedly brilliant kids have to work so hard and still can't keep up with everyone else. |
Anonymous
My 2 kids at TJ never prepped. What are they prepping for? The test isn't that hard that you need 2 years to prepare for it. |