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[quote=Anonymous]Completely agree with the above. It is very hard to make 4 years of fine arts work without doing summer school. My child did not do summer school as an incoming freshman and that has definitely made her course planning much trickier.

She did Ancient Civ between freshman and sophomore years and that was a good call. You don't technically need World History 1, but she had an easier time in World History 2 because of it. It is also a fairly easy class as far as summer school classes go. Relatively little homework, and since it isn't a prerequisite to anything else your kid is not at a disadvantage compared to kids who took the prerequisite during the regular year.

I would not do any math or science class in summer school. These courses already move so fast at TJ, I can't imagine they could get an adequate foundation in the summer. And you would have to take 2 in order to free up a year slot, because all the math classes before calculus are semester classes. So your child would have to take both research stats and Math 4 to gain an actual year long class slot for a music class. I don't even see Math 4 on the summer school list.

Definitely agree with the language advice. Spanish and French are known as being very hard languages at TJ. A friend's son tested into French 2 as a freshman (after 2 years of MS French with an A) and barely made a B for the year. And that was with getting tutoring practically every 8th period.

I would also strongly suggest your child join marching band or do a fall sport. It is a huge advantage to these kids to have a built in friend group in that first year. I am biased because my daughter is in marching band and it has been an amazing experience for her. The band director is phenomenal and the kids are all so great. She was lukewarm about her instrument before, but not she loves music again in part because she is enjoying the band so much. It does take over you life from August through November.[/quote]

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