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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand every middle school will be given a few seats, but last year no one at our middle school accepted the offer.  I could be mistaken, as I also heard one kid attended for a year, and returned to base high school.  DC took the admissions test this month, and we think there is a good chance we will be made an offer.  What I want to understand is why would one not accept a TJ offer?  I hear everyone saying how much harder one has to study, but is it significantly more than what a student at base high school enrolled in all honors courses would need to study? How much time would be available to do sports?  Trying to figure out if DC would be better off going to our high school with known friends and teammates, or tryout TJ, but definitely want to avoid the hassle of transferring if TJ isnt the right fit.  [/quote]
They need to stop fooling kids and their parents into thinking as long as they are in top 1.5% at their middle school they'll do just fine at TJ.  This just sets up the kid for suffering and misery especially if coming from schools like Poe Middle in our neighborhood.  An entire three fourth of our school is not taught basic Algebra at all.  If they learn somewhat basic algebra, then they are in very top percent at the school, and are being pressured to put in the TJ application.  If they accept the offer and enroll, how can they expect our so called "top" student from our school to do well at Thomas Jefferson, where 98% of the other students are coming in with better level of algebra math and english?   What they really need to do is offer proper math classes and make sure they fix the chronic attendance issues, and then let the kids decide if they want to apply to TJ and take the offer.  [/quote]

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