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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basically the rich parents who can afford to test prep their kids from 1st grade NNAT up until the TJ test are all pissed that they no longer can reliably get their kids a quality private high school education with public dollars.  Why we are spending public money on a school like TJ and at the same time all the other schools are overcrowded and can't afford to pay enough to keep teachers and subs will never make sense to me.
My son's 2nd grade teacher told us that over half the kids were in Kumon, Sunshine Academy, and other math prep (and CogAT prep) courses when she asked if kids had seen questions like these during the CogAT pre-test examples a couple years ago.[/quote]

All the test prepping in the world isn't going to move a kid more than a couple of points. This is a false narrative, put forth by activists to delegitimize, standardized tests and TJ. They provide no evidence for these fake theories they just tell stories.  Since we are into lazy empiricism, I will give my own example. My DS didn't test prep at all. He took one practice test, then took the TJ test and finished in the top 10%. He went to TJ, finished in the top 10% and is going to a top 5 college. That's the kind of kid who should go to TJ and the kind of kid who may not go there in the future thanks to these admissions changes.  The concept put forth about a bunch of rich kids test prepping and getting into TJ without deserving it is false.  Most of the parents at TJ are middle class or lower middle class. It's not like McLean high school.  Not very many rich people. Many of them are immigrants.[/quote]

This is the type of thing you write when you think you know and understand TJ because maybe your kid went there, but you really don't. At all.[/quote]

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