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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ohhhh Japanese is back. Awesome! That could be good for my kid if they are accepted this year.[/quote]

I really like that this new Principal is doing things to make TJ academically excellent rather than engaging in social engineering.[/quote]

What exactly is your definition of academically excellent? By adding all those new AP classes, the kids will stop taking a balanced course load of TJ-specific classes created and taught by experts. That's why we picked TJ--this is a shame. Every kid is going to look exactly the same on paper and they'll all be burned out.  There's literally nothing special about it anymore.  Watch all the amazing teachers leave now that their programs are gone.[/quote]

The AP classes are a boon.  Your kid was going to take pre-calculus at an AP level of rigor anyway.  Now the class will be weighted as an AP class.
Your kid was going to take most of these classes at an AP level of rigor, now they get AP credit for it.
And the number of electives hasn't really changed. My kid can still take all the same electives he planned on taking when he was a freshman.

What programs are gone?[/quote]

NP.  I think what people advocating for more AP classes don't realize is that when an AP is offered in direct competition with a TJ-specific class and they both fulfil a requirement, the large majority will pick the AP class simply because it offers the extra weighting. When no kids choose the TJ-specific class anymore, it gets cut and the teacher who taught it gets assigned to teach something else, probably the AP.  The AP then becomes the standard, which sounds nice on the surface, but it just raises that standard for all the kids, making it the status quo and ultimately not helping anyone.  So while those TJ-specific electives are still listed--for now--in a year or two, as the APs take over, a lot  of the electives will be gone, kids will have less opportunity to differentiate themselves, and colleges will have a harder time choosing who to admit--from TJ AND between TJ and base schools. If they all look the same, there is no benefit.[/quote]

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