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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, but the problem with that premise - "two kids who are otherwise the same" - is that the top x% of the class at TJ are taking classes that are NOT available at Edison - way more advanced and unique things (including that TJ students work on a Senior Project in one of more than a dozen labs, some of which have equipment that NO other high school in the country has).  Spend some time exploring TJ's website and you will understand this (links below)

http://tjpartnershipfund.org/current-needs/research-labs/

https://fcps.tjhsst.edu/coursemgmt/courses/300/

As just a few examples, Edison (link below) does not have a course in Bionanotechnology.  Or Relativity, Electrodynamics & Quantum Mechanics.  Or Introduction to Optics Systems and Phenomena.  Or even the more plain Computational Physics.

http://www.fcps.edu/EdisonHS/departments/science.htm

Now, if you assume that TJ kids not at the top of the class are competing against top 10% of Edison kids, yes, probably top 10% of Edison kids do better than the middle third of TJ kids.  But for the top of the TJ class, Edison is not going to serve them as well. 
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Most of these courses exist at TJ to reinforce the sense of TJ students and parents that their Asian kids are superior and unique.  If those same kids availed of the courses available at Edison, they would still end up in roughly the same place by the time they got out of college.  The hubris at TJ is disgusting.[/quote]

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