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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what? That proves nothing. This thread is really insulting to a lot of kids -- like my own white male -- who have always worked hard, from K through 8th grade ... not because of TJ or Langley or a Big 3 (another option we had because of DS's hard work) and defeated 90% odds against him to get into TJ. Did you go to the new admission orientation tonight? No, I suppose not. Nor did I. Trusted my son to go and make his own decisions. And he came home totally excited about TJ learning, sports, clubs, languages, teachers, and his peers. Including the Asian students. Don't some of the parental units on this thread realize we have (thank goodness and despite parental phobias) raised a generation that is largely color and race blind? [/quote]

Congratulations for your son getting in. Also, thanks for your voice of reason. Regardless of the demographics and TJ haters, few things are clear about TJ: 1) They have great teachers. Not all of them obviously but most are competent and many gave up lucrative private sector careers to become teachers there and many stay for decades and retire at TJ, 2) Most of the students are very bright. Not all of them are brilliant in all things but most students are brilliant in 1 or 2 areas (e.g. latin, programming, instrument, writing, poetry, Rubik's cube, chess etc.), 3) They have more than 170 academic teams and clubs and they are all open to all of the students, 4) Very active sport teams and teams are not centered around few "superstars" like some other schools, 5) Soon, they will have the state of the art research labs which were funded separately and newly renovated building for all of the class rooms, library, computer lab etc., 6)Graduates come out with confidence knowing they survived a very rigorous academic program and usually end up in the top 10% of the colleges thy attend whether HYPSM or UVA (which helps with getting into Graduate School or Professional School) and finally, 7) There is a trust between the students and the administrators/teachers (e.g. no bells, lunch anytime, anywhere, no hall passes, no harassment for being few minutes late to class etc.) which is rare.

There should be more schools like this for the good of the region/state and for good of the country.[/quote]

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