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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The job of TJ is to teach kids.  Your basic point is that kids who have allegedly shown themselves to be adept in math (or whatever) should not be provided any programs specifically designed to cater to this ability.  However, if a kid is adept in basketball, they do deserve such a program.  Apparently winning basketball games is more important for you guys than providing supplemental education for students demonstrating proficiency.  That says a lot about you, doesn't it?[/quote]

You're misrepresenting the argument.

Kids who are adept in math ARE provided plenty of programs specifically designed to cater to their ability. There are plenty of students every year who are entering pre-calc in 9th grade and are not admitted to TJ. What becomes of them? Their school helps them to find solutions if they run out of math at their high school. Perhaps there are enough of those kids to warrant an additional advanced class. Perhaps they take a college class.

If we hijack TJ as an educational institution that is only designed to serve the extremely advanced, before long you will no longer have a full-service high school on your hands. TJ is a wonderful place to be because students can have an exceptional STEM education AND they can also play basketball, or write for the newspaper, or act in a play, or march in the band. Otherwise it's just another AOS or Curie.[/quote]

Agreed, TJ shouldn't be only for STEM nerds, it should have rigors for arts and history too, a balanced HS. Wait...what's the point of TJ existence, such a waste of money, why can't the funds and donations go to the underprivileged elementary school directly, at least it helps those kids at early age than being propped as poster kids at high school and suffer the failure at TJ. [/quote]

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