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[quote=Anonymous]Realize that last year TJ had a freshman suicide and got a new principal. And the TJ community has been taking a real look at where it is and what it wants to be going forward.  They have weekly therapy dog visits (really!) and are really pushing mental wellness on multiple fronts— by parents, by student groups, by teachers and by the administration.

TJ has become a part of a Stanford program this year aimed at bringing balance to high performing high schools.  And they are trying to change the culture and “bring the joy back into learning”. They are actually enforcing home free Thanksgiving, spring and winter breaks this year.  They seem to be doing a better job spacing out the end of frehman year project dump. And for the first time, there will be no summer assignments.  It seems like they are ramping up for more changes over the next couple of years.

Based on the anticdotal evidence here, it seems like this new focus may be carrying over to admissions. If so, it’s a hopeful sign. It would be great if TJ started getting more kids who wanted to be there for the sake for getting a TJ education, rather than TJ being seen as a resume bullet in college admissions. And if that could trickle down into making TJ hard to prep for, that would be even better. Middle school kids need to be doing middle school things. Not sitting in TJ prep mills. My kid is very into the overlap of music and math and TJ is great for them. If we end up with STEM literate journalists and artists who do cool things with computer graphics, that ps a great compliment to the kids who do hardcore STEM.  Hardcore STEM is important. But I love to hear about the kids coming in in unusual STEM paths.

Your kids will add so much to the school. Welcome![/quote]

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