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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d highly recommend focusing on your child’s happiness in their current social situation too. Once you hit upper school it will become extremely important for your kid to feel as though they have friends and belong in their school environment. We stayed in private for the academics but my kid was miserable socially-college worked out well but I’m not convinced it was worth my DC coming out of 4 years feeling like they had no friends at the end and in general not enjoying their peers or any of the usual HS activities. There is more to the equation than the academic piece. Look at the college forum now-a video has gone viral there of a Princeton student who is miserable and urging parents to focus on their kids mental health. I agree wholeheartedly. Who cares if you make it to the “promised land” if you can’t even enjoy it once you’ve arrived???[/quote]

This. That video is really sad and Princeton has had 8 suicides in 3 years and I think the social stuff and not fitting in continues at college for many or just begins at college. The social eating houses and frats and many of those things continue into college.

There are families that literally started networking for their kid to get into the right fraternity or eating house in highschool. That continues out of college into private business groups then clubs then so on and so forth. We luckily are not in a profession where this sort of thing matters but I see families talking about networking and contacts early on. It is so stressful on these kids. One family made their kid join a fraternity for the connections despite their kid not wanting to join - kid is painfully shy. [/quote]

PP eating clubs are at Princeton and Harvard and was referring to frats elsewhere.[/quote]

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