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Congratulations for your son getting in. Also, thanks for your voice of reason. Regardless of the demographics and TJ haters, few things are clear about TJ: 1) They have great teachers. Not all of them obviously but most are competent and many gave up lucrative private sector careers to become teachers there and many stay for decades and retire at TJ, 2) Most of the students are very bright. Not all of them are brilliant in all things but most students are brilliant in 1 or 2 areas (e.g. latin, programming, instrument, writing, poetry, Rubik's cube, chess etc.), 3) They have more than 170 academic teams and clubs and they are all open to all of the students, 4) Very active sport teams and teams are not centered around few "superstars" like some other schools, 5) Soon, they will have the state of the art research labs which were funded separately and newly renovated building for all of the class rooms, library, computer lab etc., 6)Graduates come out with confidence knowing they survived a very rigorous academic program and usually end up in the top 10% of the colleges thy attend whether HYPSM or UVA (which helps with getting into Graduate School or Professional School) and finally, 7) There is a trust between the students and the administrators/teachers (e.g. no bells, lunch anytime, anywhere, no hall passes, no harassment for being few minutes late to class etc.) which is rare.

There should be more schools like this for the good of the region/state and for good of the country.[/quote]

Much of what you've said applies to many schools in the county.  Other things you've said are simply conjecture about what happens to TJ students after they graduate.

The fact is that there are a declining number of parents in this area putting TJ on the pedestal on which you think it uniquely belongs, and a declining number of students applying to the school.  It's not vitriol to point out what the applications trends make unambiguously clear.  There are increasing numbers of students who basically say "no thanks" because they know they'll have just as good, if not a better, experience at their base schools.  TJ is becoming a niche school, not a magnet school.[/quote]

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