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I have a first grader who DH thinks is something special.  He keeps telling me that he thinks DS will go to TJ.  Is that something you can tell in first grade?  DS is over a year ahead in both math and reading but I think this is fairly common in FCPS.  I homeschooled him in kindergarten to avoid DL so I don’t have any input from that year - and I really didn’t know what I was doing.

What are the steps to go to TJ?  It’s high school, I believe, but I saw another poster mentioned AAP was helpful for math.

Does anyone have any experience with having one TJ kid and one regular HS kid?
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I think you comfortably have four to five years before you really want to start thinking about that conversation.

Your goal should not be to make your child appear to be a good candidate for TJ - your goal should be to cultivate your child's academic and intellectual curiosity in these formative years and then when you start thinking about 5th and 6th grade you'll have a better sense of whether or not the child is a potential good fit based on interests and advancement.

But PLEASE - for your sake and your child's - don't make any decisions between now and then with an eye towards TJ. There are a lot of square pegs that have been wedged into round holes at TJ, and those kids are pretty unhappy.[/quote]
Two years if you want to get in the FCPS AAP pool.[/quote]

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