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[quote=Anonymous]I agree, honoring the EFFORT is critical.

That said, school is all about honoring the winners, the best, not effort at all.  So you are bucking their system, and some kids end up not winning any of this stuff.  And that hurts, it has to hurt!

I will say, as someone who graduated from a selective, prestigious, women's college 40 years ago, but who had to WORK HARD for every A throughout high school but most of the students at the college were truly gifted/really brilliant if not gifted. They didn't often have to work hard for their As, their honor societies in high school....

But when it came to working at college, they DID have to work hard because - you know - nmost of the women there were also brilliant/gifted and those who hadn't ever studied hard or worked hard in high school? they were screwed and took a good year to figure out HOW to study, WHEN to study, WHAT to study... something I had mastered in high school.  Because just arriving in class wasn't enough, and they had never had to do that work in high school.

So hurrah for the PP who has a gifted/brilliant student musician for teaching her to WORK for her grades, how to study, etc.  That will stand her in good stead when she attends college with her equals. [/quote]

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