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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To OP- I find it weird that parents with a freshmen are on this page. Wouldn’t you be better off on the private school page/fcps/McPherson etc page? The fact that you are on here means that YOU are the one stressing about your child’s grades and YOU are going to be the driver in their stress. I have a 23 so that’s why I’m here, but I certainly wasn’t asking about grades when DC was a freshmen bc I understood that As and better than Bs and I have to love the child I have, No what what their grades are.[/quote]

No, it's the opposite.  We're in this weird upside down universe where I'm telling my kid I think his choices are fine, and that I'm confident he'll end up in the place in college and in life that's right for him, and he's going to school and coming back home in a tizzy because some other kid told him "Why aren't you taking X class?  Don't you want to go to a good college?"  or "I got a B+ on that Spanish test.  My parents are going to kill me.  You can't get into a good college these days unless you have all A's."

So, I want to reassure him that he can do what he loves, even if it means he takes a less rigorous course load, or gets a mix of A's and B's.  But if I'm going to tell him that, I need to be able to talk honestly about what that choice means.  My guess is that either way he won't get into the schools at the very top, and that the difference between the schools that he will get into isn't huge.  But I wanted to reality check that, because I don't want it to come back and bite me if I tell him something, and he makes a decision based on that and he's devastated in 3 years.  [/quote]

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