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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son is at a Big 3 school. He currently doesn't work very hard or study much, but manages to still get mostly As and a couple of Bs on his report card. We're worried that when he enters high school he will be in for a rude awakening and realize that he needs to buckle down and work a lot harder to get good grades. Right now he is totally unmotivated by school and more into video games. We're trying to decide if it even makes sense to keep him in private school and pay all this money for an education he doesn't seem to care much about. He's a smart kid so would probably do very well in public, and from what others have said on this board he might even have a chance of getting into a better college than if he sticks with private and is competing with much more accomplished kids. I think our son would be upset to leave his friends and the only school he's ever known, but we're frustrated by his apathy towards his education.

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I would stop trolling and find something more productive to do. If any kid is getting As at a Big three there is a ton of work that is handed in. This is not the old days we’re a genius could just ace tests. Most classes the tests or assessments as they like to call are a fairly small part of grade. There are complicated projects, essays and group work. If you do not pull your weight in group project teacher knows. There are many things I do not like about our school-very preachy etc but the work is the work and it is way more detailed than a public school. I would triple it by hs. Public elementary schools are just as good as private in early years. No comparison unless you are talking TJ in older years.
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