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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid know presidents in order and their numbers and has since age 4. He know countries, flags, most encyclopedic knowledge.He learned all this without trying as he loves this type of knowledge. As a parent, how much he memorizes is annoying.  He doesn’t know anything related to sports or pop culture, but this trivia knowledge is a passion.

What he wants in a school…..Latin as he is in Latin 2, orchestra (but not a passion), trivia in a competitive sense. He will want to take as many courses related to biology, ecology, and environmental science as he can. He also love Geology and World History as well as current events. He adores reading and loves discussing books. [/quote]

Yes. Your kid is the smartest one in FCPS. He’ll get into TJ and graduate #1 in his class, and from there do the joint Harvard-Stanford college program. FCPS has never seen a genius quite like him.

Look, clearly you are determined to send your poor kid to TJ. I hope for his sake he doesn’t get in, because you are about to force  him into a situation where he is way, way over his head. The writing alone would crush a kid with dysgraphia. And he doesn’t sound capable of doing the group projects the make up a significant piece of each grade.  And, while kids can (and do) drop back, it’s often a huge blow to the ego and your kid becomes “the kid who couldn’t hack TJ” at the base school.  As in, i asked my junior DD about he lab partner in physics and discovered he had dropped back from TJ early freshman year. DD didn’t give me an name or any info except: “some kid I was assigned to work with who could t hack TJ.”

Now, she’s. Being a bit snotty, since her sibling is an alum and was told to cut it out. But, there is a kernel of truth. When kids drop back, that’s all most people remember about them— that they dropped back from TJ.

TJ is about more than smart or quick with math. I’m not sure why some people can’t understand that. [/quote]

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