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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are proving the point. These are decisions your kid should be making. That you are debating what classes to take or what sports to play (I get it on the football, not questioning that) says a lot.

You should really evaluate how involved you are with your kids choices. At some point, they need to own them.

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At a base school, I would agree. And I would have said the same thing before I ended up with a kid at TJ.  But I ended up being much less involved in MS than the first year or 2 of HS.  TJ is so different than a base school.  It’s hard to explain, but parents end up having to be a lot more involved when your kid is trying to do something that demands so much from them— especially at the beginning.  The school repeatedly asks parents, starting on Day 1, to please— make sure your kid sleeps.  Make sure your kid doesn’t over register.  Make sure your kid does not over commit.  Make sure your kid does not have unrealistic expectations. Because that’s how kids crash and burn.   And boys, especially, are vulnerable, because a 14-15 year old boy tends to have terrible EF skills.   By junior year, your kid should be able to plan their own schedule and activities. But in 9th grade, coming from MS, where you got easy As with minimal effort, parents still need to be involved.  And if your kid was leaving at 7 am, and wanted to get home after 9pm, every single night, and then eat and shower and start into 4-5 hours of homework, every night, and still be looking at some Bs, you would be concerned too. [/quote]

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