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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should just make it in Chinese.[/quote]

The largest portion of Asian kids at TJ are Indian. But congrats on the alt facts.

Plus, this seems designed to make it harder for the Asian test prep contingent, no?[/quote]

they need to shut TJ.  its benefits are only to a few and has become a huge cost.   long overdue to stop the entire out of control TJ process.[/quote]

Only thing out of control is the emotional IQ of people like you who cannot accept change. What kind of phobia shall we call it?[/quote]

here is the thread you meant to be posting on - http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/639015.page

TJ has become an embarrassment.  From hundreds of postings like above to the thousands of Indians that groom their kids from pre-kindergarten onward have warped the system. TJ should be closed and the money redistributed to local high schools.  Let these crazy parents have their children go to private school, just like they would have if they lived in their own homeland.
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Ha ha ha!

(1) Additional education - summer school, extended school (i.e. outside of school classes, etc) are GOOD for academic achievement.  Read links below and educate yourself.  Your laziness is not an excuse.  Yes, these links only talk about summer school.  Nothing wrong with extending that concept to after school.

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/Making-Summer-Count-How-Summer-Programs-Can-Boost-Childrens-Learning.pdf
http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1737&context=theses

(2) Close TJ & redistribute funds - Ain't gonna happen.  TJ is the best Public high school in the country. The county and the state are not going to this deathwish.  They just spent a crap-ton of money on the school, for god's sake!

(3) Indians, go to private school  - Why?  We pay the same taxes you do and more (we pay SSN that our parents don't get to enjoy unlike yours, for example).  If TJ goes away, the high performers at the base schools will be the Indians.  You can't avoid that reality.  Here's a thought.. Why don't YOU send YOUR kids to Private school.  They eill get "TJ-like" education and there's no competition (or far less) to get in.

(4) I know you didn't say this but some other idiot will - No, we aren't going back either.  We'll do that after you do since you came here first.

Reading all the posts on this forum - There are two issues:
(1) TJ admission process - This needs to be fair, solve all the issues present in the current process (i.e. remove the advantage of prepping), accommodate minorities, etc.  This needs to be solved.
(2) TJ cheating (as in copying of tests, homework and exams) - Implement consequences.  Without this there will be no resolution.

It would be good to see threads focused on these two issues without race baiting and all the anti-prep nonsense.  
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