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[quote=Anonymous]After just having high-caliber conversations with your kids at the dinner table, I would say:

#1: Invest in MS through HS.  If your kid is going to a school where expectations are low, there's little chance to be creative, and the general culture is one of mediocrity, then I'd say get the heck out of Dodge.  Sorry to say, IMO most DCPS fall into this category.  :(  Invest in knowing your kids' teachers, and try to help them get into the best classes with the best instructors from start to finish.

#2: Invest in educational experiences in the summer.  Send your kid abroad to learn a foreign language; volunteer in the National Park Service; do Outward Bound; whatever.  Note that the experiences don't have to be academic ones, but it ain't a ad idea to find university-based summer programs so your child grows up feeling like a college/university campus is familiar and "fits".

#3: Take a really great parenting class or see a family therapist if your relationship with your kid needs some sprucing up.  Don't underestimate how important you are.

That's where I'd put my $$$.  :)[/quote]

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