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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid who went to TJ and had a 504. At least when kid was there, there was maybe 3 or 4 kids with disabilities per year. (I don’t know if that has been increased…..) Your list seems it can be over come, except “refusal to study”. That’s a pretty BIG one. What does your kid want? Do they want to stay at TJ? Approx 10% of each freshman class transfer back to their local high school after year 1.

While TJ isn’t the 2am up every night hotbox people make it out to be, “refusal to study” wouldn’t work no matter who the kid was. Even the kids that go to MIT have to study and do homework. I would argue the super advanced kids have to do even more work because they get put into post-AP classes early.
In terms of college acceptances, being from TJ isn’t an advantage so if your kid doesn’t want to do the work, just place them back in their local high school. [/quote]

OP is the kind of parent who simultaneously wants to claim their child is disabled yet totally functionally unaffected. Hence we are expected to believe he refuses to study yet is doing fine academically… at TJ. and he has serious social issues but they are all masked so he has no problem making friends.

It sounds possibly like the kid has some rigidity, maybe anxiety, but it sounds a LOT more like OP has anxiety and a lack of understanding of normal childhood development. [/quote]

I've posted previously about the refusal for hygiene without the school details and every single response was the kid has special needs on that detail alone.

Kid chose to self-studied a full year of math last summer, repeatedly fought about getting the work done before the deadline, but did complete the work and got a perfect score on the SOL. Kid is very gifted. That doesn't mean there aren't real issues.

I've faced so much judgement over the years about the rigidity, food refusal, inability to sleep through the night for a decade, the works. It's funny how I finally express my concerns and everyone wants to immediately shut it down.[/quote]

I’m probably going to get flamed. Getting a perfect score on an SOL isn’t “highly gifted” for TJ. There a many kids who ace the SAT & SAT subject tests, go to international math & programming competitions, and make bio fuel & mutate plants before even getting there……..and kids past that. 
The exams at TJ are beyond what is at regular high school. For instance, in high school classes teacher would give them all the info needed to ace the test. In TJ, half of the exams are problems they have never seen that they have to “think through”. It can be frustrating for some students. 
If your kid is study adverse and rigid, I could see it being frustrating. Not from intelligence. I don’t know your kid. Just style. Freshman year is the easiest. [/quote]

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