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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the same as above, but I posted about having a sophomore. My child also has an organizational coach. She needed the coach a LOT freshman year. They worked on keeping her organized and also writing techniques and study skills.

This year there is tremendous improvement on my child's part on the organizational front. So they are meeting less often and mainly working on the study skills. The sophomore English teacher is nowhere near as hard a grader as the freshman English teacher, so that also helps.

And I can tell you that MANY MANY MANY TJ kids have tutors for various subjects and/or skills. I think it is almost the norm![/quote]

I think the reality is that TJ expects all kids to be excellent in everything.   And no matter how smart and hardworking your kid is [b](TJ only takes top 2% of FCPS kids[/b]), they are going to have a weakness in some skill set or subject. This is, after all, a high school that expects freshman to walk in the door with the skills necessary to succeed at top college-- but with a much wider array of required classes (advanced CS, Geosystems, AP Calc, AP English and AP history, at least 3 years of a foreign language, etc).

IME, most TJ kids use tutoring at least sporadically, or in some subject at some point. [/quote]

Not quite true.  TJ admits 2% of the rising 9th graders.  Not all of the best apply.  I think is it safer to say that 100% of TJ students are in the top 5% of the county.
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PP on this, and that's fair. Not all top kids apply and admissions aren't perfect.  Base school kids get into MIT each year while TJ kids don't.  I meant that 2% of FCPS grads come out of TJ. [/quote]

My supposition -- and I would love to see data on this -- is if you look at the top 5 % of the county (or the schools individually) and compare the outcomes to TJ, you will not find a significant difference in colleges.  If that is true, for the people that are going to TJ only for the edge up in college admissions, they are being foolish.  TJ is not how to get into a better college.  It is how to get the opportunity to excel in STEM activities in HS.  [/quote]

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