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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did she go to a rigorous high school?

If she went to a public high school, this may not be her fault.

I remember the valedictorian at Wilson, or maybe he was salutatorian, wine to a top ten university. He was super  smart and driven but got bad grades freshman year. He just wasn’t adequately prepared by his high school.

It would be really inappropriate to send her to a high school thwt didn’t prepare her for college and then get mad at her for performing poorly her first semester.
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GO away TROLL[/quote]

I’m not a troll. He finished first or second in his class at Wilson, is now a successful person, but did poorly his first year at Duke. Despite working hard in high school. Wilson didn’t prepare him well.[/quote]

Plenty of people attend Public HS and do well in college.  In fact, majority of students attend public high schools (or private religious schools that are not elite HS). [/quote]

Our private religious HS has midterms and finals. Our public does not.  I've had kids at both, and taking away the stress of tests has exponentially increased anxiety for kids at public HS.  It is night and day.  "Oh you poor incompetent helpless babies who are too fragile to take a test" is the message they are receiving.  I'm glad I pulled #2 out of public school, and #1 who is now in college is realizing the disservice the public schools did with removing finals, midterms, attendance requirements, testing with no retakes, etc.  [/quote]

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