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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it really worth it to drag your bright child through TJ even if they are extremely bright and focused? They end up competing against each other for schools so only the ones that discover some new technology or launch a rocket are first round at top universities (Ivy league). The majority could have gotten in to UVA, William and Mary etc, without going through the TJ grueling schedule.  Future employers are focused on colleges- high schools are not that relevant and a few years out of college you should never list a high school.[/quote]

Check the article cited upthread. TJ grads have the highest average GPA of grads of any school in the country that has at least 10 students at UVA at a given time, year after year after year. An amazing education means that once you go to UVA, you are at the very top of your class.  And most TJ grads agree they do it without working very hard.  More than college, future employers are focused on grad schools.

Plus, TJ may have the best peer group of smart, kind, hard working motivated kids any school in the country.  They play sports at a higher level than any high school their size, have a top rated marching band, put on amazing drama productions (the female lead of the spring musical just won the best female vocalist CAPPIE), sent more kids to all state band and orchestra than any other high school, win national writing and art awards, [b]and, of course, sweep state and national academic awards.[/b] All while being nice, down to Earth kids who are not drinking and not doing drugs.

You send you ur kid for the education and peer group. But the college admissions are pretty damn impressive too. [/quote]
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What "national academic awards " did TJ sweep?

"They play sports at a higher level than any high school of their size", what? You're so full of it.[/quote]

TJ just won the NSC National Quizbowl Tournament several days ago and they are one of the top ranked MUN delegation in the country.[/quote]

In addition to this:

The math team just won first place in the nation in the ARML, and won first place at the CMU national tournament earlier this year, and 2nd place at PUMC at Princeton, 1st place at Duke

The Chess team won the national championships this year

TJ Student was the National champ in the US History Bee. Another student was 4th

TJ Debate won VHSL states and placed 3 teams in the top 35 nationally

TJ Latin teams placed 2nd and third at the Yale Certamen

TJ had the national high school journalist of the year

3 TJ students were among the 40 Regeneon finalists this year

4 TJ students were Siemens regional finalists, and a TJ student was 2nd overall in the Siemens competition

TJ has 4 of the 20 students invited to compete in the US Biology Olympiad finals

The History Quiz Bowl team were national champions

A TJ student is a finalist for the US physics Olympiad team

2 TJ students were finalists in the US computing Olympiad

The Science Olympiad Team won the VA tournament and went on to win several categories at the national Science Olympiad, including cyber security

TJ had 2 Presidemtial Scholars

TJ Had well over 100 NMSFs

And numerous other academic awards

THIS YEAR

Also, TJ Cubesat is getting ready to deliver its second CubeSat to Houston to be launched into space later this year (not exactly an award, but very cool).

Not to mention sending more kids to all state band and orchestra, and senior regional orchestra than any other high school.

And all of the marching band awards

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Well of course they do really well. Many TJ kids are among the strongest students in the pyramids they were drawn from. Some of them are extraordinary students. You concentrate them all in one place and drain the pools they were drawn from and they're bound to do much better on average than most other excellent schools, and certainly much better than the other high schools in the district. However, although they place close to the top in most cases, I'm not sure you can call their performance a "sweep."

Look at SO for instance: https://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/National_Tournament_Winners

There are lots of schools that aren't even magnets that consistently do much better than TJ at a lot of competitions. Mira Loma is one example.

It's not a function of some TJ secret sauce, but simply the fact that it's a very strong pool of students.

As far as the satellite is concerned, yeah, it would be nice if all schools had this level of resources for kids who are interested. But FCPS base schools can't even get late bussing for more than one day a week, so many clubs are forced to try to meet on that day (which, in contrast with TJ's 8th period,  has always struck me as the grossest and most unjustifiable inequity between TJ and the rest).
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