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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The work is hard and the expectations are high. None of this is new. If a high GPA is your goal, you are safer staying at just about any base school in FCPS. If a challenging experience is what you are looking for, go to TJ.

My kid goes there and loves it; she is not getting straight As for the first time in her life but I can see so much growth in her process and work ethic. She is also into the arts and has found a strong community of smart, motivated kids. None of this will not get her into a T10 program but that was not her (or our) goal. All that said, I am confident she will show up at college 1000 times more prepared than I was to manage the workload.

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The second paragraph right there - that's what has always been great about TJ and exactly why to do. Grow the work ethic. Find a great peer group (which in the end typically helps kids who might have a smaller peer group at the base school because they are quirky to grow socially just in general). Be prepared to manage heavy workloads in life in general and get more resilient. These are the reasons TJ is great and why people should go. GPA - unless a kid will really do miserable managing the workload - should not factor in, nor should a T10 program. Life skills are so much bigger than all that.[/quote]

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