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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand every middle school will be given a few seats, but last year no one at our middle school accepted the offer.  I could be mistaken, as I also heard one kid attended for a year, and returned to base high school.  DC took the admissions test this month, and we think there is a good chance we will be made an offer.  What I want to understand is why would one not accept a TJ offer?  I hear everyone saying how much harder one has to study, but is it significantly more than what a student at base high school enrolled in all honors courses would need to study? How much time would be available to do sports?  Trying to figure out if DC would be better off going to our high school with known friends and teammates, or tryout TJ, but definitely want to avoid the hassle of transferring if TJ isnt the right fit.  [/quote]

Football team is 2-7[/quote]

Ehh, they were 6-3 the year before I think.[/quote]

Why are people bringing up football at TJ?  It's a joke.  They continue to get an exemption from playing a regular schedule against other Class 6 VHSL teams, and instead almost entirely play public school teams in lower divisions and some charters/associations of homeschooled kids.  Neither of their two wins in their 2-7 season last year were against regular public schools.

To put in context, I think Wakefield in Arlington has gone 0-10 the last two years in a row but they still man up and play a normal schedule.  [/quote]

Honest question: so what? They still get to play football, and they get to do it against programs that they match up decently with. In a sport like football where safety is a real concern, it makes a lot of sense for TJ to do what they're doing. Otherwise they wouldn't have a program anymore, and that would have cascading impacts on the rest of the school's culture.[/quote]

They should play a regular schedule, turn football into a club sport, or just not field a team.  They'd still have a good tennis team even if they didn't play football, but taxpayers shouldn't be funding a fake team.

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