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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't winning everything in America? I mean, that is what we are learning from the leaders of our nation, that so long as you are winning the methods do not matter, so why stricter standards for HS students. [/quote]

Because it's great that my TJ kid is smart.  But it's also important that he have a strong moral compass. That he knows what the right thing is, that he do it, even when other kids are not, and that his peer group is a positive one. I have no interest in my kid hanging out with kids who are drinking and doing drugs in high school.  Likewise, I have no interest in his peer group being full of cheaters.  I raised him to be a better person than that.  Why didn't the parents of the nearly  100 kids with honor code violations-- just the confirmed ones. And just this year.

Seriously.  I want to hear from one of these parents, who are so offended by people expressing concerns about the demographic shifts, but had a child honor code violation.  Why did you not tell your kid that their character is more important than a TJ diploma and that you would not leave them in a school where they felt they had to cheat to succeed?  And then bounce them back to their base school?  Kids talk. Everyone knows who these kids are. Everyone knows who the parents are.  I don't want you or your kid at TJ and a lot of TJ parents feel this way.  So please-- tell me why you, as a parent,  are allowing this?

The problem isn't that TJ is too Asian. It's that too many kids feel like the ends justify the means in terms of cheating. And that the kids who do are overwhelmingly Asian. [/quote]

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