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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s extremely insulting that members of TJ AAG think they know the experiences of everyone’s child better than their parents do.  Just because this small subset of alums lied to their parents doesn’t mean all TJ students do.  These alums have a hubris and closed mindedness about them that tells me they didn’t expand their thinking in college.[/quote]

You have it backwards. It is precisely [i]because[/i] many TJ alums expanded their thinking in college - when in many cases they were exposed to legitimate diversity for the first time - that they are able to bring a perspective to the conversation that is outside of the myopic TJ bubble.

College is a breath of fresh air for most TJ students, and an eye-opening experience for those willing to approach it with an open mind.[/quote]

The type of posts by these alums on a parenting site that they stalk do not exhibit open mindedness.  Repeatedly saying that everyone’s kid is lying to their parents is not a rational argument.  It’s an extreme argument based on a small sample size of that poster and the small number of alums they associate with.[/quote]

You're right, of course.

But every other teenager lies to their parents.  It's what kids do.  And teenagers who go to college learn in college, even the ones who peaked in high school, such as TJ kids.  [/quote]

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