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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MS was 6th - 8th in our district.

As a rising 6th grade parent, I scheduled a very long meeting with the school counselor during summer break.  I took my kid to the meeting and I basically asked for -
- 3 years of schedule - what would be taught when.  
- Marked out which subjects would be considered HS credits.
- Timeline for any tests or exams that would be administered - MAPs , HSAs etc. 
- All the options for electives and various permutation and combinations of subjects and how they would impact HS course selection. 
- All low hanging fruits for MS.

I then put everything in a spreadsheet.

- I made sure that I had put my kids in varioys kinds of enrichment, EC activities before MS started. 
- Made my kids take all the available ECs in after-school clubs
- Made sure that my kids started doing scholastic tournaments 
- Made sure that my kids started amassing the SSL hours, also organizing community volunteer activities to enable other kids to get their community hours. 
- Made sure that I dropped and picked up my kids (and often times their friends) by car. It allowed me to become friends with the parents of these children and eventually I was able to coach some STEM programs for these kids and take part in STEM competitions as a group. 
- I packed two snacks - one for lunch and one for after school clubs. 
- Kids showered at night.  clothes were laid out at night, all assignments were completed and bags were ready at night. 
- I was a volunteer at the school.  I was very clued in about what was happening in the school. [/quote]

This is a joke, right? Right?[/quote]

You missed the second half of the post! There’s more to the list [/quote]

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