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[quote=Anonymous]Another issue is that some middle school kids are going to be very wary of the culture shock at TJ, particularly if they are coming from a MS that isn't an AAP center.  You may have seen the higher achieving kids at your elementary school peel away to an AAP center, but then you get into TJ because your non-AAP middle school still is guaranteed slots.  But you haven't been around the AAP kids for years, and you sense TJ is going to be like AAP on steroids.  So you take a pass and stick with your base school, because it's going to be a familiar environment.

It was very important to the School Board for PR purposes to say kids from every middle schools get into TJ.  They hate schools like Carson and Longfellow, and I know activists very close to the former School Board members who were complaining constantly about how few kids from Holmes and Poe - the two middle schools closest to TJ - attend the school. So they changed the admissions process for TJ, but they didn't really change the atmosphere at the middle schools themselves.  [/quote]

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