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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other activities for some is catching the school bus home because their parents don’t have a car and have to budget for public transport. It’s babysitting  younger siblings while parents are working. It’s cooking the family’s dinner snd other housework. It’s taking their grandparents to doctors appointments. It’s having a paying job to pay the household bills.

Get out of your privileged bubble.[/quote]

They don't belong at TJ then if they have that many other commitments.  TJ has a longer school day, longer bus ride, more homework . . . I agree people's situations and priorities are different out of desire or necessity.  That doesn't mean you lower the bar of elite programs.  [/quote]

This is a garbage take in so many ways.

For one, yes, TJ has a longer school day - because of its 8th period program, which can be used for academic help or additional homework time if needed.

For two, no one is lowering the bar or elite programs. A TJ education will remain a TJ education - and it will indeed be enhanced [i]greatly[/i] by the inclusion of more students from differing socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.

For three, I [b]NEVER[/b] agree with the "defund/eliminate TJ" nonsense, but if we have created a secondary-level [b]PUBLIC[/b] educational environment where students who have family members to take care of at home literally cannot participate, we have created an educational caste system. And that's not something our taxpayers should [b]EVER[/b] support.[/quote]

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