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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nightmare situation. If you talk to your TJ counselor or anyone there, they’ll downplay your student’s feelings and insist that getting Cs and Ds is normal at TJ. However, low grades aren’t typical for an average-performing student, even with extracurricular involvement. [b]The administration is now dealing with a significant number of low-performing students especially after admissions change[/b], and your child is just another statistic to them. With pressure to retain the class as a whole and minimize dropouts, they would never suggest that even the poorest performers leave TJ. They seem indifferent to your struggling student’s self-esteem or future college prospects. All you hear is to stay put, with no guidance on how to help your student rise from the bottom to the top of the class.

The end of the year is the best time to consider making a switch. Start a confidential discussion with your base school counselor in the spring, around the time course selections for the following year are made. If the switch needs at beginning or mid-year, the classes available will depend on enrollment levels, which may limit your course options, but the nightmare will be over.  [/quote]

Oh no! Why the admission change? Why not just take on high ability, proven track record, ability to work hard and intelligence? [/quote]

I don't know, maybe because "proven track record" and alleged objective test measurements of intelligence etc. are transparent means of stacking the deck against kids from underprivileged backgrounds who are going to present as underperforming by those measures (relative to well-off students with similar natural intelligence and ability profiles)?[/quote]

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