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So you’re saying that children born to families that do not have the advantage of being able to put education above all else are just out of luck? Just too bad for you kids born to uneducated or lower income parents (who didn’t have any advantages when they grew up either)?

You’re willing to say that only children who win the lottery of being born to parents who prioritize education should have the opportunity to go to a school like TJ? Do you even hear how the the paragraph quoted above sounds?[/quote]

I'm willing to say that by middle school, if the parents don't value education but the kid wants to go to TJ, the kid needs to show some initiative.  Every single middle school has some STEM extracurriculars.  Any kid can sign up for math contests.  For the kids who are unaware of the opportunities, surely they could talk to a math teacher or counselor at the school for advice.  I don't buy the notion that a kid who has done absolutely nothing in middle school, aside from getting good grades, belongs at TJ.  I also think the handful of brilliant, disadvantaged kids in the county were more likely to be detected in the old system than the new system.

I am willing to say that TJ is for the kids who are enough beyond the regular AP/IB offerings at their base school that they need more.  If you're going to attend TJ and largely take the same classes that were available at your base school, there's no point in being at TJ.  The only thing kids in that situation would have accomplished is that they would completely sabotage their college admissions by being in the bottom half at TJ rather than the top 5% of their base school.  [/quote]

Every student at TJ, by virtue of the tech requirements, takes several courses during their TJ careers that are not available at their base school.

An attractive argument if you don’t understand TJ, but invalid.[/quote]

DP. I am well familiar with TJ and someone who doesn’t take any advanced courses do not belong at TJ. Design and Tech is a joke. [/quote]

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