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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happy to add on. My kid’s a senior at TJ.

- I second all of the above. A few elaborations…

- Summer School: If your kid wants to maybe do music or art each year then you especially want to start with summer PE this summer as it frees up a slot. PE9 before TJ, PE10 after 9th and the extra history course after 10th was how DC handled it.

- Languages: Anyone I’ve ever heard of that is doing Spanish at TJ is floored at how ridiculously hard it is. German sadly has gone downhill a lot this year. They lost a wonderful German teacher last year and the current one is nowhere near the same level. It’s likely an easy A but just not a very good course. If you’re already 2 years into it some kids have done the 3rd year as a summer course to be done with it (UVA is reported to prefer 4 years though of language).

- Fall: Joining a time intensive call activity is a great way to make friends off the bat. A sport (many are easy to make the team), marching band, or some of the various time-intensive clubs would all help with that.  
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Is Spanish 3 hard as a 9th grader or hard even in 10th? DS is coming in after 1 year of Spanish at Kilmer.[/quote]

Honestly, think about whether your kid really wants spanish or if german works just as well.[/quote]

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