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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS saying he would like to apply to TJ. Grades are good.
I am hesitant due to my perception that students are expected to self learn and due to a high pressure environment. What has been your child’s experience with this? [/quote]

There's ~3000 applicants for 550 spots.  It's not super selective.

The pressure is real.  [b]They need to be a more mature student that learns the material at home and goes to classes for review is real (at least in some of the stem classes, they go a mile a minute and if you are relying on classroom instruction for learning, you will drown).[/b]

I think my kid would have been marginally happier at his base school, he world have had a better gpa at his base school, he would have an easier time with the Virginia State colleges from his base school... but he is MUCH better prepared for college, he got to stay on the varsity team in his sport as a freshman, he is making friends and his peers are all pretty motivated.[/quote]

No! Not at all!!

There is absolutely no need to learn the material beforehand at home. This is the most unambiguous indication that the child is not a good fit for TJ.

And this is exactly what Curie encourages and that is how it hinders the child. By exposing the material beforehand, you are short-circuiting the discovery process, which is very important for the student to retain and understand the material in depth.

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WTF are you talking about?  Going into math class cold and expecting the teacher to spoon feed you everything is a recipe for failure at TJ.  This was true in 2015 and it's true in 2025.

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I graduated more than a decade before 2015, but I never prepped for my math classes before the school year started at TJ. The only prep I had was prior year math classes. I survived Multivar and Linear.[/quote]

NP.  Same. [b] I went to math class and learned stuff there, I didn't learn it before class and then just practice during class.  [/b]

Modern teaching pedagogy is baffling to me.  I feel so sorry for all of these kids - and to their future society of a lot of kids who don't know much or even how to do anything.  [/quote]

It is not modern teaching, just that some students were just told again and again by their parents that if they see new material in class for the first time, they are going to find it hard. That they need to take coaching classes in advance to avoid seeing new material for the first time in class. This is the whole premise of Curie.

So when students see some material for the first time in class, they freak out.

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