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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you force or even persuade? TJ is for kids who have a passion in these subjects and they want to dig deeper. A regular FCPS high provides a fine education and in fact, it’s likely your kid would have a “better” college outcome there. Not sure what the point of pushing them to go is at all if they aren’t self motivated.

(Of course, I say that as the child of parents who absolutely would have forced me to go. I thank my lucky stars we didn’t have something similar where I grew up.) [/quote]

+1 - and I’m a TJ alumna who went *despite* my parents’ apprehension! TJ spiraled into toxicity precisely because of parents pushing in kids who didn’t belong and/or didn’t want to be there, and they didn’t have any interest in engaging what previously made it such a great community. See: test prep, cheating scandals, 8th period clubs with founders/presidents and no members, the decline of team athletics/academic competitions, etc.

A bright kid will very likely have a better “ROI” at their local HS.[/quote]

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