Does TAMS even take the time to get to know kids they accept? Not personal at all.
Like a factory. Check, check, check and you’re in. Very sad for many naturally, truely gifted, intelligent, interesting students not given the opportunity.
TAMS admin seem to focus on rote memorization and robotics students. With all the new tracks, you would think? Guess old habits are hard to break. Maybe admin needs to be replaced.
Place is overly populated with the same kids. No mental or physical diversity. No mental diversity.
Find it quite strange that all the teens look the same.
They look the same because they are smart and work hard - almost all first generation immigrants.
But that aside, the environment at TAMs is toxic. The competition is cutthroat. The teaching faculty is mostly crusty semi-retired old white guys - many known to be condescending towards females. As a matter of fact the guy who used to teach Honors Chemistry was so old and fragile that he was prone to pneumonia leading him to cancel classes. And his replacement is another crusty unkempt guy who could be mistaken for a janitor. And the guy who teaches Calculus 2 is semi retired and is known to hand out Cs and D’s liberally.
Sadly the kids do well despite TAMs because they are inherently motivated and smart.
Terrible toxic environment packed with miserable Indians from India.
All thinking they want to be Doctors.
They are mean and have zero empathy.
A whole bunch of high schoolers that think they are doctors already.
The worse grubby group of people I have ever experienced.
It’s no longer a program for the gifted. A program for the skilled who spend every minute of their time taking math classes at KD, kuman and Chinese math. Then they come to tams and repeat the courses they’ve already taken.
Administration need to do a better job recruiting and balancing ethnic group in the program, so the “grubbies” don’t take over the place and make others feel like they don’t belong.
State needs to mandate it.
I left for could not deal with them and I am Asian.
They’re disconnected socially and emotionally.
A senior friend of mine left last semester too.
TAMS is not all that.
Administration do nothing to protect the students who are not Indians. The Indians will team up and harass one students until he leaves the program.
Calling them names