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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Life is not about hard work.  Its not supposed to be drudgery.  OP, your DD sounds depressed.  I don't know why posters think its acceptable for a child to be this unhappy.  My DD started like this.  She was a great student but hated her school.  Then she became severely depressed.  I don't want to go into details but it was horrible.  I so regretted not listening to her from the beginning.  We switched her from her "rigorous" school to one where learning for learning's sake (as opposed to competition and 4 hours of homework) is valued and she is so much happier.  The contrast taught me that kids actually can be happy in high school.  And she's still a great student very focused on her academics.

I guess I'm pleading with you to take your DD's emotional health as seriously as you do the "rigor" of her school.  You don't want her to look back and think that she hated her teen years.[/quote]

Could you tell us which school you switched to? That's where I want to send my kids....[/quote]

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