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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I don't necessarily think TJ prepares students for UVA and W&M better than say typical AP classes in a base school.[/b] I think students from both high schools can do equally well. Again, I'm not sure I see a clear advantage of having gone to TJ if both kids end up at the same college and do fine. Seems to me TJ just causes a lot of stress and extra work before the real work begins in college. Definitely not how I would have wanted to spend my high school years.[/quote]

How would you know this since your kid is not in TJ  :? It is interesting to note how some people like to argue going to TJ is not useful just because their kids are not getting admission. Sounds more like sour grapes. Having said that, TJ parents with the experience can always question this, sometimes as a TJ parent I wonder about this myself, but that is just different from someone without a horse in the race dissing the school out of spite. [/quote]

No, it’s absolutely not sour grapes. I don’t have kids who are even in high school yet. I just worry about the stress levels of kids at TJ. So I ask...is it worth it? I felt very prepared for college and I didn’t go to TJ.[/quote]

PP. Not all kids deal with stress the same way. May be some kids stress too much, and I can only speak for my DS. He had his share of struggles adjusting but he loves the school and is having the best time of his school life. The work is hard, they call it grind and shaft, but they also say it good. May be it is because he talks to many upperclassmen he know through sports. I just don't know, and it may work out well for college.[/quote]

If you review threads on AAP, you will find the same concerns about stress on 3rd graders.  But kids adapt.  I'm yet to come across a kid having panic attacks because they were in AAP and should not have been.   Same goes with TJ.  It's a big jump from 8th grade to TJ.  Kids struggle in 9th grade but soon adapt.

In some countries, kids do real work in the morning before and evening after school.  Yet they manage.  It's called adaptation to the environment.   Parents should however watch for signs of real stress (anxiety, panic attacks, etc) and inappropriate coping mechanisms (copying on tests, etc) and make sure those don't cause long-term issues.  Other than that, I think most kids adapt and rise to the occasion.[/quote]

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