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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is "average" is often a comforting cope for parents with boys who are below average. And 6th grade is a difficult grade to tease it out just how vast the achievement gap is. Middle and especially by high school is when the widening gap becomes very clear. Every coping parent points to outlier success stories which are in no way typical and/or a no longer applicable to the modern landscape. Being a college dropout was fine ... for baby boomers, as 90% of their peers lacked a college degree. Zuckerberg could drop out of college ... because he was already polished at the most elite boarding school in the US (Exeter) and was a computer wizard at Harvard for goodness sake. But it's 2021, your kid won't graduate high school until 2027 or 2028, entering adulthood in a global high-skills hyper-competitive world, where well over 50% of his peers will have bachelor's and advanced degrees.[/quote] Except 50% of kids ARE below average. [/quote]
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