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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an incoming freshman (he’s a merit kid from a feeder, not lottery), if he came home with a C on his report card freshman year he would be headed straight back to our base school.  I wouldn’t wait for the end of the year.  Our family has high educational expectations.  C’s might “earn degrees”, but not in this house.

I’m not worried about his grades and expect him to have all As or close to it freshman year.  It gets harder each year, so C’s freshman year is a horrible start.  As a parent, you should be able to see very early on if your child is thriving or just surviving at the school.  If the year starts out with lower grades on the first few tests/quizzes/assignments, that is the time to make adjustments to study habits and extracurricular time commitments (don’t wait until the kids GPA is already ruined).[/quote]
Funny.   This is clearly a troll post, with obvious giveaway clues that make it easy to spot as fake.  :lol: [/quote]

Not a troll, I have high standards for education for my children.  It would also be super concerning for a child who has scored all As in middle school advanced classes to suddenly have a C on his report card.  I know not all parents are as concerned with GPA, but most parents of TJ students are concerned.  TJ isn’t an average high school, a C would be a 2.0, students get kicked out of they don’t have a 3.0 GPA, so clearly C’s are not what the school is expecting of the students.

Do you even have a TJ student?[/quote]

Do YOU have a TJ student? Way to drive them to craziness. [/quote]

My original post stated that I have an incoming freshman.  He’s extremely intelligent and I have high expectations.  Having a [b]C would mean he wasn’t trying at all in the class[/b].  I’m sure he will have to work harder in some classes at TJ, but that’s why he wanted to go.  Elementary/middle has been extremely boring and too easy, he needs a challenge.

I don’t know why any parent of an intelligent high achieving child who got into TJ would be ok with C’s when their child could have much higher grades at the base school, thus having better options for colleges.[/quote]

I have a kid at TJ and a C does NOT mean they are not trying.  Especially in math.  It might mean they are unprepared for TJ.

Every kid there was bored in elementary and middle school and a lot of them still get C's despite trying their best.

My kid had Cs in the first half of Algebra 2 and I got him some tutoring and he pulled A's the second half and managed to end up with a B but he was definitely heading for a C and not for a lack of trying.  A lot of kids are getting Cs in that class.

The woke crowd is going to burn me for saying this but if you have an incoming freshman, have them watch (with intent) some videos on statistics and algebra 2 or get them tutoring.  If they aren't into math and doing math counts and AMC 8/10 in middle school, this stuff is going to be a bit of a leap from what they are used to.[/quote]

I was talking about [b]my particular kid[/b].  If he gets C’s it is only for lack of doing homework or trying.  He already had As in Honors Algebra I, Honors Geometry, and Honors Algebra II with very minimal effort.  I wouldn’t expect him to all the sudden have a hard time grasping concepts at TJ.[/quote]

Pretty much all the kids at TJ got As in math before going to TJ.  Kids taking calculus as freshmen that got easy As in math their entire life suddenly get their first C.  A bunch of freshman in pure calc get Cs.  There is a famous email blast from the math department to all the freshmen math 4 pre-calc students  expressing disappointment in their final grades.  The average grade was a 70% for kids that took algebra 2 as 8th graders.  A substantial minority of them got a 50 or less.  That's an F.

I hope your kid does great in math and maybe he's a natural, but I'm just saying a bit of caution might be appropriate.[/quote]

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