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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]The new admission policy ensures that more kids who need this enrichment get it whereas the old system only ensured kids who already got outside enrichment got it from the school too. This seems like a great and necessary change.[/b][/quote]

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+1  This right here is the heart of the change.  You can argue for or against it.  But kudos to the above poster for articulating the change.  [/quote][/quote]

There's no way around it. The people who want to cling to the old system mostly just want to be able to guarantee their kids will get in if they take a couple prep classes. These changes make it a lot harder and give bright kids in less affluent a fair chance.

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The "prep" lady is lying again. The old system is race neutral. The new one is racist. Everyone can "prep", aka studying. Studying is the least expensive thing to do. If it were so easy to ace SAT by just taking a couple prep classes, white parents wouldn't have paid tens of thousands to have someone else take SAT for their kids.[/quote]

Someone already posted the nationalities/ethnicities of the folks busted in Varsity Blues and it included a wide variety of nationalities and ethnicities, it wasn’t just White people. Lots of parents are stupidly desperate to get their kids into the best colleges and high schools thinking that it is highly important. It leads to them doing stupid things, like cheat on SATs or TJ admissions tests. It leads to prep for exams that have been demonstrated as being biased in favor of Middle Class/Upper Middle Class families.

TJ is simply proof that families are willing to spend money and time to prep their kids, leading to artificial acceleration in math in order to try and increase the chances of attending TJ. I understand that there are smart kids who enjoy math but that doesn’t require that kids take Geomoetry over the summer to meet their needs. Nor does it require kids taking science and math classes over the summer so that they have a head start on learning the material that will be taught in their class, to insure that they have an A in MS, for TJ, or A in high school, for colleges.

Not every kid who attends TJ does these things but a good percentage do. How do we know this? Look up the number of private business that teach TJ prep classes and teach science and math classes over the summer for kids to take. That is very different then kids taking AoPS or RSM or participating in STEM extra curricular activities.

You call it hard work, others call it gaming the system. Whatever you call it, the same desperate need to get your kid into TJ drove a very small percentage of rich, but not rich enough to buy a building for a University, parents to cheat to get their kids into colleges. Parents who were all races, skin colors, and nationalities.

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