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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are bilingual and take our home in high school at one level higher than most peers and are doing well. Our friends, also with bilingual kids, enrolled their children in a Saturday language school, where the kids get what is essentially a second high school diploma from the home country. This has allowed their children to take a different language in school, meaning their kids are trilingual and they have a truly impressive extracurricular that shows commitment (the language school is intense) and has shaped their children’s entire narrative (the kid volunteered for a summer in the home country, has an internship next summer with an developing markets investment firm focusing on a part of the world using our language, etc.

I’m just kicking myself because if I had thought through this 10 years ago, I feel my child would be in a much better position college application wise. These friends had asked if we would be interested in doing the Saturday school with them, but it conflicted with sports and travel and our kid plays hs soccer but certainly isn’t going to get recruited.

Just a vent, but feeling like my past self let my high schooler down. [/quote]

You should feel the shame because you’ve really let your kids down.  Truly you kids probably couldn’t hack it anyway.  WTF!

Raise the kids you have - happiness is worth more than achievement.  Plus truly motivated students will do better than parented scaffolded ones.

My brother was a straight B/C student until the end of his sophomore year when he decided school could be interesting.  He got a BS in geography from Northwestern and didn’t get a master’s degree.  He runs an international company and is a multi-millionaire.  What you don’t realize is his social skills - built through school and sports - were way more valuable than his ability to speak broken Spanish or French.  He also didn’t do any internships because he was focused on soccer.

Meanwhile - I was a straight A student and National Merit semi-finalist.  I graduated summa cum laude and have a PhD.  I’m a cog in a large corporate wheel.[/quote]

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