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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." There's arguably something very important for their development about their being around a more diverse group of kids as adolescents.

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]

You're talking about five or six top students in most cases. The benefits that those students will get from attending TJ FAR outweighs the benefits to the school environment of having a few kids around who are all likely to end up in the same classes with one another anyway. And further, those kids actually getting into TJ and having that experience is undoubtedly having a positive impact on their respective middle school environments, which for years didn't have any kids at TJ to look up to.[/quote]

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