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Robin, a homeschool friend just pointed me to this post. I didn't know about you until today. I'm a TJ parent too and homeschooled my daughter for 8th grade.

You write: "He was a teacher after all, and I’m just a parent." No, you are never just a parent. We get ourselves into a lot of trouble when we concede that school always knows best and we are just the parent. Many of us TJ parents have come to the realization that it's the kids who make the school what it is. A lof of parents live under the illusion that TJ is stacked full of the most awesome teachers on earth. Surely there are some outstanding ones, worth their weight in gold. But the overall perception is well over-rated.

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"One exception is the use of type systems."

A pretty glaring exception if you ask me. Could Haskell be taught with the same approach?

BTW, there are subsystems of Java which are simple enough that they can be explained in full, such as Featherweight Java.

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