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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For me, the commute is devastating.  Traffic has become so much worse.  The other schools offer so many options for advanced classes, it just seems a waste to spend all that time on the bus.[/quote]

There is the lazy entitled attitude[/quote]

Agreed. For a similar STEM magnet school in NYC, "Stuyvesant High School', kids have to take the NY city subway for long commutes (not on a safe school bus but the real NYC subway) changing trains just to get to the school in the morning from areas outside of Manhattan and do the same to get back home as well. The trip is typically longer than a typical TJ student's commute. Thousands of kids do it everyday not complaining but grateful they have an opportunity to attend one of the best high schools in the country and actually learning.

Try doing that for a month and you will be begging for a nice school bus transportation. Lazy spoiled brats.[/quote]

The cluelessness and vitriol on this board is ridiculous.   To call someone lazy and entitled because they don't want to drive themselves crazy with a long driving commute each morning in an area where traffic congestion gets worse by the day is just silly.  Although it is urbanizing, Northern Virginia is not a city. What many people forget is that some families have lived here for years and can remember when the commute wasn't so bad and everyone didn't act like you were crazy if you had a smart kid who didn't go to TJ. Things have changed quite a bit even in the last 4 years.  And some people weighing the options have decided that TJ isn't worth the tradeoffs, or they'd rather go to a neighborhood school.  So what?  Given it's competitiveness, seems like TJ fans would be happy to have less competition for entrance, not need to attack people for not wanting what they want.

Secondly,  I'm very familiar with Stuyvesant since I lived in NYC and a good friend went there.  Commuting comparisons with TJ are like comparing apples to oranges.  It's a lot easier to take a subway even if you have to switch trains than get in a car and fight traffic.  As you said, thousands of kids do it everyday with no problem -- the subways aren't scary and are typically much faster than the driving around here at rush hour.  I'd feel much better putting my kid on a subway any day.

The great thing about this county is that there are a lot of great educational options.  Why can't we be happy about that instead of putting down anyone who doesn't want the same thing? Life is a long road and high school is just a stop along the way.  It can be life-changing for some, a best-forgotten blip for others, but it rarely determines the outcome of a life.  It's funny because as smart, geeky kids my friends and I used to make fun of jocks and cool kids who acted like success in high school was the be-all and end-all.  And yet, the way some parents talk about TJ, you'd think today's brainiacs had bought into the same BMIHS (big man in high school) mentality.  Just stop.  Encourage your kids to use their gifts wherever they go and realize that there's enough success to go around.

I've lived and worked all over the world think few things are sadder than a grown-up talking about where he went to college (typically, Harvard) or god forbid, high school.  It's usually a sign that that's when their life peaked.     [/quote]

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