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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've taught and lived abroad, so have some perspective here.

Yes, American schools are easy compared to the kind of school this teen would have attended, but the converse is that we don't throw up our hands and give up on kids after 13 if we think they aren't "college material."

He's also chosen to avoid the classes where he would be meeting highly motivated peers of the sort he left behind in gymnasium.

Moreover, though, I just really agree with the PP who said it is your job to help with navigate American cultural norms by not being rude.

I assume he wants to live/work abroad as an adult, hence doing a study abroad in HS. I think you can be pretty blunt with him - he will not get far in any field if he cannot or will not at least mimic baseline civility in line with local cultural norms. [/quote]

No one is giving up on kids after 13. They’re teaching them vocational skills so they can be productive members of society. Here if you graduate and aren’t really college material, you have no careers waiting after high school graduation. We actually don’t want an entire country of college graduates. But here we’re pushing kids into advanced high school courses that they just fail and distract other kids. [/quote]

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