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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does he have a good friend group at school?
OP, your son sounds a lot like mine, also at a Big-3. We kept him there because he has a tight group of friends he's known since PK. Also, he's really happy at school.
My DS isn't type-A, but he's super smart, so he often gets away with doing the bare minimum. He's not particularly impressed by Ivy League aspirations (even though DH and I are products of them -- or maybe that's why he's not impressed, haha). However, now that he's about to be a junior, and he's interested in certain colleges, he's taking things more seriously. It's eye-opening for kids to see how high average GPAs and test scores need to be to get into what would have been "safety" schools a generation ago. [/quote]

This is good to hear. Our son does have a solid group of friends, so I think it would be hard for him to leave them. I would never normally care if my kid got As and Bs- those are awesome grades!- but we know he is fully capable of all As with a little bit of effort, which he’s not putting forth right now. I’m hoping he’ll find his groove in high school but we were worried that if he keeps up the mentality of thinking he doesn’t need to work very hard to get good grades, then he’ll get a very rude wake up call when things get hard. We just want him to have better study habits and show us that he has some passion for learning. Maybe time and maturity is the trick. I do think that he will be better prepared for college if he sticks it out at this school, so fingers crossed he turns things around![/quote]

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