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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe get them excited about being a 9th grader first. 1) Make good friends - adults and peers. 2) Get engaged in the community - the world is bigger than you. 3) Find new things to love to do. 4) Build some grit by completing hard tasks. 5) Take risks and explore your creativity. 6) Learn how to be independent. Do your own laundry, buy your own crap. 7) Disagree (nicely) with peers and parents. Kids do a whole lot of growing up in 4 years and it is seriously irrational to expect their high school years to be only about getting into college. 95% of applicants to the elite schools are going to get rejected and half of those who do get in are going to be in the bottom of their class. So it is foolish to stake your child's worth on where they go to college. There are plenty of colleges with wonderful faculty that accept public school kids with B and even C averages. And there are lots of high schoolers who are better off not going to college at all. [/quote]
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