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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“But going to TJ can damage your kid's self-esteem and drive. He is not going to get a better education there, unless it's an education in suffering. ”

Hasn’t been my family’s experience so far. Education in 9th so far is light years away from 8th grade Honors classes (at a “good” not “top” MS) experience for math/science. Moreover DC seems to be more self confident and more willing to try things than was ever the case in 8th, giving the chance at learning / growth through extracurricular experiences. YMMV. [/quote]

Sounds like a combination of a typical teen maturing and yet another TJ parent endowing the school with magical properties because her own snowflake goes there.  These are the parents we want to avoid; they’re bad enough in middle school. [/quote]

:roll: 
Feel free to dismiss people who don’t fit your narrative. The change I’ve seen in my own kid has been over a pretty short window though and DC has directly expressed more comfort with volunteering for things at TJ and participating in school life than at the base school - yes maturity increases in half a year but the level of shift seems pretty big for simply getting half a year older to be the main feature accounting for it. [/quote]

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