Anonymous
06/02/2022 19:49
Subject: Re:2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Do the crazy FCPS elementary school parents ask for your autograph? Do they come to your house with their kids on the weekends and ask to shadow you? Do they try to stalk you outside your home and steal bits or hair and fingernail clippings to make a "good luck" doll?
Anonymous
06/02/2022 10:34
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD is starting in the fall. What is a typical sequence for kids trying to do a language and band throughout? Should she knock out PE in the summer or keep it for an easier class? If the former, what do people usually take in its place freshman year? Some other mandatory class for a future year or something fun? We know no one there.
Students have 2 electives. it's usually language and PE. Finishing PE in the summer will help free up an elective and she can take Band. She can continue with both for 4 years.
Instead of band could you take a study hall to lighten the homework burden?
Anonymous
06/01/2022 16:55
Subject: Re:2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Question: Is there pressure at TJ to identify as queer or trans or otherwise anything but the deadly boring straight, cis, Asian/white? When I went to TJ there was quite a bit of diversity in terms of sexual orientation, but no pressure for odd-ball nerds to label themselves on according to gender stereotypes, and I wonder if that's changed.
Only if you’re a RWNJ trying to manufacture issues.
Anonymous
06/01/2022 16:49
Subject: Re:2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Question: Is there pressure at TJ to identify as queer or trans or otherwise anything but the deadly boring straight, cis, Asian/white? When I went to TJ there was quite a bit of diversity in terms of sexual orientation, but no pressure for odd-ball nerds to label themselves on according to gender stereotypes, and I wonder if that's changed.
Anonymous
06/01/2022 16:27
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Parent of a recent TJ grad and I really think the "there are no kids who don't care about school" really does sum it up. Now some of the kids cared about school bc their parents were raging nut jobs about grades and some kids cared about school bc they were really interested in learning and a million other reasons in between but pretty much every kid at TJ wanted to be in school. I have a kid at a base HS, and while he's having a great experience and I'm happy he's there, the environment is different regarding taking school seriously (and yes there are kids at base who are very serious scholars -its just not the whole school). I'm not sure what this all means in terms of admissions or how you measure for it, but it really does exist.
I'm an alumna and this is what I loved about TJ, and what is leading me to consider it for my own kids in the next few years, despite the crazy media attention and unpredictable admissions situation. I'm glad to hear it's still true about TJ kids.
Anonymous
06/01/2022 09:34
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Thx! DD would love to keep swimming but I wasn’t sure if it would work. She plans to do marching band so likely will need to dial practices back over the fall to accommodate.
It works if they do club swim in the mornings (mine did 4:30-6:30). If they love swim and band, it will be very doable, and help them to stay happy, healthy, and able to manage their workload better.
Did your child sleep? Don't get me wrong I love the idea of doing swim before school but between homework and sleep I think it would be hard.
Yes, at 9p, but swim was only 4 mornings, so he slept in 3 days out of the week. He has a lot of self discipline, but he's not the only one. There are a lot of kids who do this. If they love it, they can do it. It really instills great time management skills.
It also takes parent discipline and sacrifice wrt picking up from band practice and having dinner ready so they can eat in the car on swim nights. It was honestly kind of tough for me, but his strength gave me strength. Plus it's really only for a couple of years because eventually they drive themselves home. My advice is to savor every minute of those long car rides home.
I don't doubt that it was tough, but thanks for clarifying.
Anonymous
06/01/2022 07:29
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Is theater arts / drama class popular? How is the community?
Anonymous
06/01/2022 05:09
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Thx! DD would love to keep swimming but I wasn’t sure if it would work. She plans to do marching band so likely will need to dial practices back over the fall to accommodate.
It works if they do club swim in the mornings (mine did 4:30-6:30). If they love swim and band, it will be very doable, and help them to stay happy, healthy, and able to manage their workload better.
Did your child sleep? Don't get me wrong I love the idea of doing swim before school but between homework and sleep I think it would be hard.
Yes, at 9p, but swim was only 4 mornings, so he slept in 3 days out of the week. He has a lot of self discipline, but he's not the only one. There are a lot of kids who do this. If they love it, they can do it. It really instills great time management skills.
It also takes parent discipline and sacrifice wrt picking up from band practice and having dinner ready so they can eat in the car on swim nights. It was honestly kind of tough for me, but his strength gave me strength. Plus it's really only for a couple of years because eventually they drive themselves home. My advice is to savor every minute of those long car rides home.
Anonymous
05/31/2022 18:59
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Thx! DD would love to keep swimming but I wasn’t sure if it would work. She plans to do marching band so likely will need to dial practices back over the fall to accommodate.
It works if they do club swim in the mornings (mine did 4:30-6:30). If they love swim and band, it will be very doable, and help them to stay happy, healthy, and able to manage their workload better.
Did your child sleep? Don't get me wrong I love the idea of doing swim before school but between homework and sleep I think it would be hard.
Anonymous
05/31/2022 09:05
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Thx! DD would love to keep swimming but I wasn’t sure if it would work. She plans to do marching band so likely will need to dial practices back over the fall to accommodate.
It works if they do club swim in the mornings (mine did 4:30-6:30). If they love swim and band, it will be very doable, and help them to stay happy, healthy, and able to manage their workload better.
Anonymous
05/30/2022 15:22
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Thx! DD would love to keep swimming but I wasn’t sure if it would work. She plans to do marching band so likely will need to dial practices back over the fall to accommodate.
Anonymous
05/30/2022 15:18
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:Adding another question - do you know kids who balance swim and TJ?
Hi there! Student poster back online and hoping everyone is enjoying their Memorial Day.
Yes, there are plenty of kids who balance swim and TJ. In fact, there was a lot of buzz around the school back during the Tokyo olympics because we had a TJ swimmer competing in one of the relays. His name was Andrew Seliskar and he was a state champion at TJ according to our athletics insta. I think he was class of 2015.
The ones who we have now get up early and the really competitive ones will do extra training during 8th period. They leave the school early to do it.
Anonymous
05/29/2022 19:50
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Anonymous wrote:DD is starting in the fall. What is a typical sequence for kids trying to do a language and band throughout? Should she knock out PE in the summer or keep it for an easier class? If the former, what do people usually take in its place freshman year? Some other mandatory class for a future year or something fun? We know no one there.
Students have 2 electives. it's usually language and PE. Finishing PE in the summer will help free up an elective and she can take Band. She can continue with both for 4 years.
Anonymous
05/29/2022 18:37
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
Adding another question - do you know kids who balance swim and TJ?
Anonymous
05/29/2022 18:31
Subject: 2023 TJHSST Student - Ask me anything
DD is starting in the fall. What is a typical sequence for kids trying to do a language and band throughout? Should she knock out PE in the summer or keep it for an easier class? If the former, what do people usually take in its place freshman year? Some other mandatory class for a future year or something fun? We know no one there.