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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't possibly overemphasize the impact of being in a community where learning is celebrated among 100% of the students. It's just different.

The school doesn't have magical properties, but the student body being 100% comprised of students who care about academics does. That is why TJ exists and must continue to exist.[/quote]

Ironically, the admissions changes have a particularly detrimental effect on the lower-performing high schools, which now are more likely to lose their top students (even if not the top students in the county) who might set a positive example to TJ.

The types of kids who end up at TJ are quite likely to end up in rarefied environments in college and their professional careers where "100% care about academics" or "100% care about their jobs." [b]There's arguably something very important for their development about their being around a more diverse group of kids as adolescents.[/b]

Given that TJ was created as a marketing tool rather than to serve pedagogical goals, the mantra that TJ "must continue to exist" rings hollow.  [/quote]

.... That's...exactly one of the principal reasons for admitting a different profile of qualified students to TJ in the first place. The kids who were at TJ for the first 35 years of its existence [i]did not[/i] have the experience of being around a diverse group of kids as adolescents. I know because I'm one of them.

Too many students have graduated from TJ over the years with effectively zero cultural literacy, which is really only developed by being around and having to depend on people who come from different backgrounds than you. It's worthwhile to recall that more Asian students were admitted to TJ in each of the classes of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 (and probably others) [b]than there have been Black students in TJ's entire history.[/b][/quote]

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