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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some point enough is enough and adults need to do their work.  Stop babying your kids in MS and HS and giving them an out for doing their assignments.  COVID is zero excuse.  As a parent you need to instill the values that assignments are turned in on time, if you need help ask, if you need more time, ask and help them as needed.  Or, stop complaining when your kids fail out of school (baring real mental health issues, not this fake covid stuff) as you and the schools failed them early on.  And, stop relying on the schools to parent your kids.  This is a great teacher but teaches should be teaching not parenting adults.[/quote]

I agree that our kids should not be babied in high school.

But with test and grade inflation, and the insanely competitive situation with colleges these days, kids can't afford to have lower grades if they want to go to a T20 college.

It's utterly stupid, but the numbers of applicants are so large that these colleges can't possibly interview and evaluate each student.

In the old days, a kid could get a C and still get into Harvard. Nowadays, a C rules out any T20 school.

And competitive colleges love the fact that they are deluged with applicants. It makes them feel special and elite to only accept 5% of their applicants when 99% of those kids applying are perfectly capable of performing well at those schools.

I'd like my kid to have the opportunity to get Cs in the classes she thinks are stupid (they are stupid!), but that's not possible. She has to get As in all those idiotic classes or doors will be closed to her, and I can't let that happen.

She knows this and understands it, but it's made her cynical about education at an early age. 
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