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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's not nonsense. Based on what I've seen with my TJ sophomore, it feels pretty accurate.

He would say that the math department teaching is the weakest in the school by far. He's doing well because he puts in hours each night to teach himself. He's had 4 math teachers already and will have had 5 by the end of this year - a different one each semester plus one change mid-semester due to a teacher leaving - and out of all of them he's only had one who he felt was effective. This has not been his experience in the other subjects, where he's had strong instruction.

He loved math before he came to TJ, and while he's still getting As he has lost much of his joy for the subject. He seems to be slowly finding it again now that he's with the effective teacher, which tells me that it's at least partly the instruction, not just the progressive difficulty of the subject, that changed his feelings.

He's a kid who might not have gotten in under the old system (not from a traditional feeder and not a math testing genius) but he's getting straight As and enjoying his TJ experience. The math department has been the one consistent area of disappointment for him, and he knows many other kids who feel the same.[/quote]

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