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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP— everyone has anticdotes.  Some of the nicest, kindest most accepting, most supportive kids I know are my DC1’s friends  at TJ.  DC2 is applying this year, and I don’t see much difference between her friends who are applying and those that are not. Almost all of them are good, kind kids who were raised well.  But my kids have great friends.

I do know that TJ has low incidences of bullying and cyber bullying (and substance abuse).  And that I have heard of some terrible instances of bullying in the base high schools from parents of the kids being bullied. A freshman girl who started receiving dick pics from a group of boys due to an organized effort to harass her. It got so bad she started refusing to go to school.  Her parents have had to involve the police. Another girls who is fit and active but large boned. A group of girls has been standing behind her in the cafeteria every day, and writing down every mouthful of food she eats, telling he how many calories it has, and distributing her food log too the school hallways  Both girls are incredibly nice, kind people and are not “asking for” this treatment.  But base school kids are dishing it out.  And I would never say that isolated problems hear about mean all the kids in these schools are bullies.

Maybe you should realize that the handful of parents you know who cannot be bothered to raise kids properly are not indicative of all, or even most, TJ kids. And that some (but not most or all) base school kids can little sh*ts who treat other people terribly.   Certainly you know better than to generalize to an entire group of thousands of kids based on a handful you know?

And PP is right.  The fact you are willing to slam all AAP or TJ kids, or all kids in families that prioritize academics makes me wonder exactly what you are teaching your kids about acceptance and tolerance and not being judgmental.  Character does indeed count. But in my mind, people of character don’t judge an entire group based on the actions of a few families.  Is that the character you teach your kid? [/quote]

Nobody slammed TJ kids on this thread that I saw. This is about a select group of parents valuing academic performance and devaluing character. Of course there are plenty parents who want TJ and care about raising good people, but this is not what this thread is about. Also, based on my experience, it's usually parents who's kids aren't good candidates for these special programs who would do anything to get their kid in and who value that above anything else. There are plenty of parents with bright kids who qualify based on their own skills and the kids are already kind or the parents are making sure the kid is well rounded and cares about others. There is this subset out there that just don't seem to care about character and yes they exist regardless of IQ, SES or anything else. However, I have definitely encountered the stereotypical parent who would probably even write a check if it meant getting AAP or TJ and they care more about their kid being the best even it means cut throat and character just isn't on the radar or list of values.[/quote]

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