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[quote=Anonymous]The problem with the talent over prep poster is that what he is really saying is inmate talent over hard work.  He wants brag that his kid took the the easy way in over the harder route of working ward to get there.

And, that’s fine and all, until you realize that even if you have more innate talent than every other kid at TJ, you are still going to flunk out of you don’t work 24/7.  And, that the students who have a really strong work ethic are the ones who will be able stay at TJ once they get there.

I went back and looked at family photos from my kid’s 4 years at TJ and realized my DS isn’t in most of them. And that for 4 years he worked 51 weeks a year, 7 days a week. He had one week in the summer before summer school, immediately followed by band camp, and then school started again.  And 2 weeks at Christmas. And that’s it. Kennedy Center trips, going out to eat for family birthdays, Wolftrap in the summer,  thanksgiving afternoons playing games. He’s missing from all those photos because of TJ.  There’s just a photo of him at his desk in the middle of the Spring break at the beach photos with everyone else mini golfing.

So, I’d quit bragging that other kids have to work and your kid doesn’t.  Because TJ is like life— except on steroids. Success at TJ is 98% perspiration, and the ability to go weeks with only 4 hours of sleep a night.  Your kid won’t be exempt from that. And they are going in way behind the curve.

Good Luck![/quote]

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