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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what do you wish you and your DC would have known before applying or accepting a spot at TJ?[/quote]

Not OP, and that's an excellent question.  It's not in the best interests for anyone to try TJ for a year, and then return to base school.  OP's kid seems to be doing fine and hasn't experienced anything atypical for TJ.  So, did TJ pull a bait and switch at the open houses and info sessions?  Did they make it seem like it wouldn't be as rigorous as it is, and that the norm is getting almost all As?  Is it that parents all assume their kid will be a top performer, and they're stunned when that isn't the case?  Is it that parents are assuming that their child should be very well prepared for TJ, based on MS grades and the TJ acceptance, only to find out that it isn't the case?  What's the disconnect between what prospective TJ families are expecting and what TJ is actually like?[/quote]

It's like accepting my child into high school basketball team because of their proficiency in essay writing, only to realize that surviving on the court requires constant running, show endurance to run throughout the game, perform dribbling without losing,showing offensive skills, and shooting with accuracy from various distances. [b]An evaluation of middle school [/b]basketball [b]skills would have been logical selection criteria, but equity called for essay writing[/b], leaving parents to wait for a year to understand where their child stands relative to the top half of the class.  [/quote]

This sums up the current situation where parents have to wait a year to determine if their child was adequately prepared to start.[/quote]

Why wait a year? Why blame the system? They were wrong for admitting the kids in but their families wanted it in the first place. If their kids are not top performers in MS, they should talk to the counselors, talk to TJ students, understand their curriculum, and talk to their kids before accepting the offers.[/quote]
How can kids or parents know if they are top performers or mediocre in their middleschool? Only TJ admissions claims to know that, magically. [/quote]

They definitely know. They know if they are in Alg 1 while their peers are in Geo Alg 2 and higher. Not to say TJ admissions now are taking in a large percentage of non-AAP students.

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Of course, the selection is being done from non-AAP pool, as it would be rather difficult to find many in AAP who are in algbera 1 in 8th grade. [/quote]

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