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[quote=Anonymous]This may be unfair since I don't have any kids at TJ.  Just my impression from the outside.  But my sense of it is that TJ is a great school insofar as it's highly selective and admits a bunch of really smart, motivated kids and then piles on lots of hard work.  Surprise -- these kids end up doing really well.  I view the quality of the top local private schools differently.  They also take lots of strong applicants (although many have been selected much younger so they don't end up having pre-screened top talent to the same level as a high-school-only school like TJ), but they add their value more in the quality of the teaching and the communities.  This sort of difference tends to show up more starkly in the non-math, non-science curricula, which is why a lot of the comments tend to differentiate between math/science and the others.  But a lot of that to my mind is that it's easier to produce success in those areas by screening 8th graders for math and science ability and then having those already-advanced kids do lots of really hard math and science work.  That's a fairly easy formula for success and doesn't require a lot in the way of exceptional teaching.  All that said, I do think that TJ is absolutely a strong school, and I couldn't fault anyone admitted to it for choosing a free education there over an expensive private education.  But I do think that price differential comes with a real tradeoff.[/quote]

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