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[quote=Anonymous]Parent of TJ senior here.  The adjustment in freshman year is hard st the beginning. New school, new peers, and very demanding work.  Kids from some middle schools are more eel prepared than others. Overall, DC has had a very good time at TJ and would not change the decision to go there. The peer group for the most part (like 98%) are smart and kind and very interested in learning about anything and participating in all aspects of the school (google “I nite”or look up the Cappie reviews for Mary Poppins, for example). They are all busy and learning hard new content every day but they find time for sports, family, and chilling with friends. DC has remained friends with several peers from other schools and as often as not, those kids can’t go out to a movie or dinner or hang out because they are too busy with a school project. Every school in and around DC has issues.  The main issue at TJ is stretching to learn more. With a few exceptions, there’s not a lot of busy work.  The classes are on a fast pace and have more to cover than at any other F PS HS. Pull up the syllabi? from the TJ course guide if you want to see. DC isn’t at the top of the class but has learned so much about so many things, including the humanities.  The German 10th graders read books that don’t even make it on a reading list until junior year at an Ivy college. The AP Lang class has read a number of interesting things this year including When Breath Becomes Air. Perhaps other schools have as well, I don’t know.  But they don’t put limits on what TJ kids can learn and therefore they absorb a lot just being there. From the teachers and their peers. Immature kids might have an issue and I wouldn’t recommend it for someone with serious processing skill deficits (though there are plenty of kids succeeding at TJ with IEPs). It’s not all TJ Vents - dc and friends don’t even look at that page.  [/quote]

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