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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turns out that kid had straight A’s and not a B- ever. They did 4+ hours of community service per week and played competitive piano as well as playing in charity concerts and doing lots of charity work. Don’t be mad just because your kid didn’t get in. They picked the best candidates. Stop speculating when your child didn’t get in. Maybe if you worked with your kid instead of complaining, they would be in TJ. Instead, you complain on the internet under a screen. They picked, not you. [/quote]

How is any of that STEM related? If this about a student taking Algebra 1, they most likely will not perform well in a STEM environment like TJ, nor will they be able to take most of the high-level STEM courses. TJ is for STEM students and leaders not those who do charity work and piano. They did not pick the best, or even good, candidates by any measure.[/quote]
are you seriously judging a child based on two sentences a stranger told you about them? everybody has potential. If you knew this kid, you would learn that they got the best science award in school, that they love quantum physics so much they were advised by a nuclear physicist to continue their passions, that their parents probably worked hard to get them in. But you don’t know. And this is a child. So stop criticizing and trying to justify that this kid isn’t smart just because your kid probably didn’t get in, or you hate the school. Don’t make a child an example of how dumb a school is and understand that everyone has potential. And you can’t un-justify this kid’s.[/quote]

Best science award? You mean the department award? That is hardly a marker of STEM talent. Some of the strongest students in the nation were passed over, students already with college-level knowledge in math and science. This student will not be able to take the Quantum Physics lab because there is a prerequisite of AP Physics C which requires Calculus BC, something this student will have to take in 12th grade, and might not even take at all. Also the fact that their parents worked hard to get them in goes to show that more deserving people would have gotten that spot. [/quote]

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