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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you force or[b] even persuade[/b]? 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]

Because you're the parent and you might know your kid would be better of there than at their base school.

I don't think you should force a kid to go to TJ.  The workload is no joke.  You learn a year of honors  math every semester.  Every class is academically rigorous.  You even get written exams in PE.

You cannot half ass your way through.  If they don't want to be there, they may not expend the necessary effort to be successful.  And then they world get nothing out of it.

They don't have to be enthusiastic, but they can't be reluctant.  They certainly can't be forced.

Try to persuade them, discuss the pluses and minuses and in the process you might end up changing their mind, your mind or both.  [/quote]

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