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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has been a straight A student in MS. He took Algebra 1 H and a foreign language in 7th grade. He doesn’t study at home a ton. It feels like the material he is working on isn’t challenging, with the exception of the foreign language. That said, he has friends who are in similar classes who do have homework, a lot of it, and who are working hard for B’s and A’s.

Do I think this means he will do well in HS? I don’t know. I think it means he is intelligent enough to do very well in HS. I don’t know how he will respond when he is taking AP classes with more homework and studying involved. We are working with him now to try and develop the attitude of studying for tests in advance but that is hard when he can do well without studying. I hope that his intelligence will keep him on the same path in HS but I know that study skills and learning how to review and do that extra work is important as well.

We acknowledge that he is doing well in school but try and focus on the effort. We praise him when he goes to study for a test ahead of time. We remind him that it is a good idea to do so even for the classes he doesn’t need to and discuss why that is important.

We are saving for college. It would be great if he keeps his grades high and gets a bunch of merit aid, because we are not going to get financial aid. We are a donut hole family and we know it. Merit aid would help him attend where ever he wants to go with the savings that we have. Right now, he can safely attend any public school in our area and a good number of private schools. Merit aid would stretch that. [/quote]

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