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This. Also, beware the law of unintended consequences. Many, many Indian parents buy in a Carson zone for the sole purpose of sending a kid to TJ.  Say you cap each school at 25 kids. These parents just move to Twain or Sandberg or where ever admit rates are lowest to give their kids a leg up.   So the same kids end up at TJ. On top of that, many parents have said they do not want to send their kid to a TJ crazy middle school. Well, guess what?  Your MS is now TJ crazy. And you kid probably has a lower chance of getting in than they do now because there are 60 Indian kids taking Geometry in summer school and test prepping to death and moving heaven and Earth to beat your kid out. If you don't live in TJ crazy, you don't get just how crazy it is. Will an Indian mom rent in the Eastern part of the county for 2 years if it gives their kid a good shot at TJ?  That's a no brainier. [/quote]

+1.  I don't really know what some people here want.  They have negative things to say about TJ, or the TJ-obsessiveness of some parents in the primary TJ feeders, but then they want to spread it around more?  The data seems to indicate that Carson is pulling away from other middle schools in placing kids at TJ, and that there's less interest in TJ elsewhere in the county.  Why should that bother anyone - it's just the natural result of a trend that has been years in the making - with the possible exception of people who moved into the Carson area thinking it was a typical middle school.    [/quote]

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