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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who are below 3.0 were sent a letter earlier this spring and were placed in remediation. I haven’t heard if those students will actually be sent back, though. [/quote]
Please take the student’s state of mind into consideration, imagine how his middle school peers might perceive or react to this situation.[/quote]
Students will be happy switching to a school that fits his/her learning needs. It is the parents' vanity forcing students staying and suffering.[/quote]
Parents are equally lost unable to evaluate fit right up front whether their offered student has the required qualifications to take on TJ rigor.  When the TJ admissions office extends an offer, parents naturally assume that their student has been thoroughly evaluated and is qualified to succeed, and not suffer with bad grades and forced to attend remediation or return to base school.  [/quote]

Parents should be able to see if their kids' grades are low and if their kid is stressed and help them to make a decision that fits their needs. Ther eality is that no application process is going to guarentee that someone succeeds in a particular position or at a particular school. People are accepted to schools at a variety of ages who meet all the qualifications and fail or decide that it is not a good fit. I completed a PhD, half of my cohort dropped out. I probably had the lowest GRE score of those in my class, I test poorly due to LDs and ADHD. You have no clue who is going to rise to the occasion and who is going to struggle or choose to leave.

And it could be that some of those kids with Cs and Bs at TJ are happy with the school and what they are doing there. Maybe they were bullied in MS and knew that they would have fewer people at their base school who had an interest in STEM.

But the kids who return to their base school should just tell their classmates that they wanted to return to a school with their friends and leave it at that. No one has to know what their grades were or why they returned.

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Casualties of equity politics? [/quote]

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