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So long as there is a nation-wide push for academic excellence, TJ-like environments will continue to persist. If that cannot be tolerated by some, then perhaps we should work towards out-sourcing quality education to India or China?[/quote]

If there were a nation-wide push for academic excellence, one might expect to see more said about how TJ-like environments could be expanded to many other schools, or how the presence of a school like TJ leads to academic achievement at more junior levels.

On the other hand, so long as we are comfortable with having one STEM-focused school that serves about 4% of a large county's student population, but gets good write-ups in national publications and is a calling card for the local Chamber of Commerce, we'll have TJ (and a growing number of disaffected groups like the NAACP begging for more seats at a relatively small table).

They can beg all they want. But to get in you have to pass a test and then write some persuasive essays.  Apparently that's the barrier - a thing called merit.  
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