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[quote=Anonymous]My DD is a junior in high school and an excellent student.  Last year her rank was first in her class of over 350 students.  At the beginning of this year, a new girl moved to the area from an elite, bilingual (English/French) private school in Paris and started at DD's very highly ranked public high school.  She is an American but has been living abroad since she was 5.  She is also an excellent student.  Her family has a great deal of money and has a tutor for her in English and History.  The tutor proof reads all her papers and makes suggestions on how to better them as well as types transcripts of the girl's AP history and AP English class (she tapes these classes).  She also has a private SAT tutor.

The semester's grades came in and this girl is now first in the class.  I don't think this is fair at all.  We cannot afford special tutors for our daughter and these tutors are obviously giving this girl the edge in school.

I don't know if there is anything I can do about this.  Because of her former school, this new girl is taking AP Calculus as a junior which my daughter cannot take because of the mathematics class structure of our public school system.  She is also taking AP Latin - again, which DD cannot take because of the language structure.  Hence, she has two more AP classes to boost her GPA that DD cannot have through no fault of her own.

I know I am competitive and a stage-door mother (not Asian and not a Tiger Mom) but regardless this new girl's money and educational advantages do not seem fair to me.

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