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[quote=Anonymous]TJ parent, and I do not get the weird TJ - Blair rivalry. Bright kids from NOVA apply to TJ,  bright kids from MCPS apply to Blair.  No one can apply to both and choose between them. Somwhich one is "better" is irrelevant. No one has the luxury of deciding IRL. They are 2 of the best schools in the country.  We're lucky to have them. Kids who go to either school and put in the work are going to get into the same colleges and have the pretty much the same opportunities.

So last year, Blair had 2 kids on the physics olympics team and TJ had one. But the TJ kid made the travel squad and the Blair kids did not. Or some such. My details may be off. But there was a DCUM brawl about whether this made TJ or Blair better.  How about this-- any school with a kid or kids on the National Physics Olympics team is pretty damn impressive.

And BTW, while the parents are fighting on DCUM, a TJ and a Blair student teamed up on a project and advanced pretty far in one of the major science fairs. [/quote]

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