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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's an interesting question PP. The Lake Braddock, Robinson and West Springfield pyramids do not send many to TJ despite being much closer to the school than say Carson.

I honestly have no clue why. In terms of demographics, the area is uniformly middle/upper middle class with most parents holding a college degree. It does have a military bent, so that may explain it since TJ's requirements do not map well to other schools.

But truthfully, I think parents are just very content. The school peer groups are great and as the other poster mentioned, AAP for Robinson isn't a big deal. My own child attends white oaks and my other child qualified this year but we will keep him at the base school in local level IV. I'd rather have him in his local school. I think a lot of other parents feel this way fwiw.[/quote]

I think that for a lot of parents in these pyramids, TJ just isn't a huge "must get in and do lots of prep for." It's almost a point of pride in Burke/surrounding areas that it is a "normal area with normal soccer mom families."  Of course it is NOVA, so that's not true, but about as true as you'll get for an area full of people with advanced degrees. I used to teach MS in one of these pyramids, and had a lot of kids say they weren't interested in a STEM career, so they saw no need to go to TJ. I don't think TJ is seen as a status symbol like it is in some other pyramids. [/quote]

We're in the Robinson pyramid. 2 of my kids are very STEM-focused but we don't view TJ as a necessary or even desirable step in their career paths. It's not worth it, for the environment, the stress, the commute, or the education considering everything they'd have to sacrifice and put up with in return. If one were intent on it, we'd probably be okay with the idea but we're definitely not encouraging or facilitating it. We also have 2 other kids; one wants to join the military and the other wants to be a ballet-dancing zoologist who writes books on the weekends. I think if we were a TJ-or-bust family, we wouldn't have moved here honestly. There are other middle schools that are more known as TJ-feeders so we probably would have focused on those instead. I'm pretty sure we're a fairly typical Robinson family in that regard.[/quote]

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