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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was bound to happen when they started admitting  students based on race instead of academic talent [/quote]

This happened under the old system as well. Kids decided that TJ wasn’t for them. It could be because of the distance or the work load or the pper group or they wanted to be with their friends at the the base school. Kids left TJ before and are leaving TJ now. Unless we are seeing a large increase in the number of kids leaving TJ you can’t say that this was bound to happen because, well, it happened in the past. [/quote]

It went from one or two to a dozen so it's only about ten kids but percentagewise the number has gone up quite a bit.

The bigger issue is that the admissions process is not really a good filter.  They are admitting a relatively random cross section of students that have an A average at their middle school.  This leads to ironicly bad results like a black student that invents a new way to treat skin cancer not getting accepted to tjhsst.  https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-teen-develops-cancer-treatment-soap-wins-national-science-prize/

It's like picking your basketball team based on an essay about how much you like basketball.[/quote]

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