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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so sick of middle school teachers talking down to the whole class as a means of encouraging kids who are struggling. One message does not fit all kids! No matter how hard we tried to counter the message, my kids threw back at us, "My teachers say a B is a good grade, so why should I do the homework when I can get a B without it? They said life goes on if you don't have and A." An underachiever's dream teacher. Now we are on the path to have that kid with the 1600 SAT (no prep) and a slew of Bs.[/quote]

Your kids would have been the same kids regardless. A few middle school teachers do not have that much influence. If they did, there would be NO straight-A high school students coming out of the middle school your kids attended -- yet I'd be willing to be that there are. Why did they not fall victim to this talking down and your kids did?

Yours are good problems to have. A kid with Bs and a 1600 SAT will be fine and you won't go broke trying to pay for an elite college.

Try being more grateful.[/quote]

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