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[quote=Anonymous]Freshman parent here, I'll try to give a balanced perspective despite having a pretty bad taste in my mouth from TJ at the moment.

The good:
Really interesting curriculum
Opportunities to talk to / get recruited by universities 
Interesting clubs and after-school opportunities

The bad:
We came from a small school system like APS and FCPS is AWFUL. Even at TJ you feel like a number and can't get a hold of anyone at the school pretty much ever. After 12 attempts over phone and email to get assigned to a bus (we submitted the form) no one ever got back to us and we were never assigned.

My child's counselor seemed impressive when we met her. Turns out she was awful. Which didn't matter until we needed answers. Never answered a single email. Got her on the phone once. When I requested an in person meeting I never got a response. Finally the school reassigned us because there was an issue (which I could have told you months ago)

There are some really awful teachers and departments at TJ. I've ranted on here before, but essentially, they aren't there to help. They are there to make TJ more stressful and may not actually know how to teach. Anyone who claims that your kid isn't smart enough...that's just not true. These teachers come up with impossible questions that an entire class working together can't solve in 90 min because not enough information was given. Or there are IT issues and they'd rather your kid fail than call the IT department to fix the issue.

Summary: I didn't encourage my kid to go. Kid wanted to go anyway. Kid did ok freshman year and wants to stay but would flourish at base school and be less stressed. [/quote]

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