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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do these expensive prep places help kids develop skills that are generally useful in life, or are they mostly learning how to perform well on a specific type of test?  If you're going to spend that much time and effort on an extracurricular, you should walk away with some skills beyond being good at the TJ test.

I don't know what's covered at Curie, and they may already be doing a lot of this.  I'd love to see the TJ admission metrics changed, because kids would be better off[b] learning higher level math, learning grammar and writing, learning computer programming, learning another language, or playing a musical instrument[/b] than they would be with spending so much time learning how to take a test.  
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Yes, the students in TJ actually do all of this too.  They are just multi-talented superior students. With metrics changed by TJ to include all of the above, we may be able to make TJ demographics to reach 80% Asian-American students. [/quote]

I know that many students in TJ do all of this too.  Do the kids who are spending so much time at prep centers have time for all of the extracurricular academics, or do they mostly just prep?  There are only so many hours in the day, and I'd hate to think that kids are choosing to attend prep camp rather than participating in activities that will give them actual skills.  [/quote]

This is the great unfortunate reality of the whole prep situation. So many parents, convinced that they need to optimize the TJ admissions process, force their kids in to expensive and exhaustive prep courses and STEM-only activities, and they end up having to drop activities that they excel in, or are passionate about, at 11 or 12 or in some cases even younger. And the majority of the kids who do this don't even get into TJ. It's a big part of the reason why TJ students routinely characterize the environment as "joyless" and "toxic".[/quote]

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