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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Re: The sarcastic statement that "TJ is a school for science and tech....not literature": You're betraying a grave lack of any knowledge of how real-life science and technology work. If TJ kids think it's enough to do math correctly and and set up labs properly, they are going to get a rude awakening when they have to write theses in college and grad school, and when they get actual jobs.

My husband was a math major and then a Ph.D. physicist and spent years in DOE and DOD national labs. He now works extensively with MDs at NIH institutes. Our family is very involved with a lot of extracurricular science activities for school-aged kids. He and every MD, engineer, chemist and physicist he knows would tell you: Good writing skills are absolutely essential to having any kind of real career in the sciences, period. If you can "do the math" but can't express your experimental results and reasoning in writing, you are not going to do well in sciences. Maybe you can get a job where you do nothing but math all day long somehow, but any form of science requires writing skills. The snarky comment that TJ is not for literature dismisses the entire idea that these kids need to learn not just the bare minimum of writing but outstanding writing skills. It's not literature they are going for; it's the ability to communicate scientific concepts clearly and accurately.[/quote]

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