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[quote=Anonymous]My child, even in middle school, has difficulty grasping long term benefits or consequences of certain choices. I'll point out how opting to take a higher or lower level math class will help or hinder her, and so on. I insisted she try honors english in 6th grade. Because she was worried about the workload, we agreed that if it turned out to be too much then she could take regular english in 7th. It turned out fine and she stayed on the honors track, but it's not a place she would have put herself. Once I explained math tracking and how important it would be for her science pursuits, she was eager to take the highest track math available.

Some people would view that as over-involved but I think it's unreasonable to expect every 11 year old to know how all the academic pieces fit together.

She chooses her own electives. I might point out that she didn't like drama last year and is she sure she wants to take it again this year, but I'm not going to force her to take band.[/quote]

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