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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ it is simply a place for those who want to fully devote their high school experience to academics. ”

That is the impression I had until my kid went there. Maybe it is true for some kids and it may have been the case before the school culture reforms the current principal instituted but it’s not my kid’s experience nor does it seem most other freshman are skipping the extracurricular options TJ offers. [/quote]

Yeah I mean the only issue is the amount of pressure kids put on each other especially if they're comparing themselves to everyone around them with an eye toward college. When they do too much of that, they may feel forced to try to do too many things and end up being spread thin. This is sometimes is fine because they discover things they enjoy that they may not have gotten to experience until college, but other times it's a bad idea when they're involved with too many things and don't have enough time to sleep or relax for a bit. But this is a standard drawback at any intense place; people say the exact same thing about MIT, Caltech, or any other place where the whole peer groups is extremely strong where everyone feels the 'impostor syndrome'.

For kids who can sort of figure out how to relax and not worry so much about what others are doing and trust that it will be ok as long as they stay interested and happy, and first and foremost primarily focus on academics, then branch out on a few other interests they have if time allows it, TJ could be a fantastic experience.[/quote]

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