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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I'm most afraid that by him accepting he's giving up high school and being a kid in place of four years of additional college. TJ seems very collegiate to me. On one hand that's nice and preparatory. On another, it feels like skipping part of childhood.[/quote]

NP. I would love to dig into this a little deeper if that's okay. In what sense are you worried about him "giving up high school"? I'm genuinely curious, as my TJ experience was outstanding once I was able to find my people.

It's also worth noting that accepting the offer of admission to TJ is not a four-year commitment. If it's not the right fit, he can absolutely leave and transition pretty seamlessly into his base school while being ahead of the game from an academic sense.[/quote]

DP, and when I arrived at TJ (this was decades ago), my Monday 8th period teacher said "Welcome to college for 14 year olds!" Sure there's a sense in which it is. They don't coddle you. And you're definitely building a resume there pretty consciously - that's a lot of what 8th period is about.

That said, in about every other way it was high school. We went through normal high school milestones, participated in sports and music (and watched plenty of games too), and did normal high school things with our friends.

The only thing I missed that my friends at base schools had was the heavy smell of cigarette smoke in the bathrooms.[/quote]

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