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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is in class of 2025 (first under new system)  Says there are definitely kids at TJ in their class who are struggling academically a great deal. Attributes some of that to not putting in the effort. Other classmates try and work hard but still are struggling. They are repeating math classes (like taking math 4 again in second semester because didn’t do well enough first semester to progress to math 5). I don’t think that happened much, if at all, for classes admitted under the old system. Child believes there are more than a handful of kids that would not have gotten in under the old system. It is one thing if the kids admitted under the new system at historically underrepresented schools can thrive and are thriving at TJ.  But it is very concerning and problematic when there are a lot more kids now struggling and find TJ extremely challenging.  Hate to say it. But they probably should not be at TJ. [/quote]

DC was in the class of 2022 and said it did happen even more in the old system. A lot of the kids who only got in because of prep and test buying weren't up for the rigor. They were average kids who were barely able to parrot back the answers they had memorized. At least now TJ gets the very best students from each school.[/quote]

No.  It wouldn't surprise me if some kids who were not good were getting in before, but the very best students are not getting in now.  Instead they accepted kids worse than the preppers accepted under the old system.[/quote]

A lot of the very best kids didn't get in before either. Indeed, a lot of them didn't even apply to TJ because no one ever went from their middle school.[/quote]

That is irrelevant.  Looking at the schools that did send students, and do so now, the best kids are not getting in from many of those schools, and at those same schools the best kids were getting in before.
TJ is doing a poor job of selecting the top kids from within a school.  [/quote]

Maybe they just have a different definition or criteria of what constitutes the "best kids."
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Obviously.  And they are wrong.[/quote]

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