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Agreed.

[b]My youngest took every AP course he could, why because coursework ended a month before non AP courses. He never studied for the exams. Sometimes he got credit sometimes not. [/b]He could have cared less. Always got A's & B's without really applying himself. Played games with MCPS testing, would fail on purpose to take test or quiz over for no penalty (great policy MCPS, NO). [b]Went away to college [to study] Engineering[/b] again could have cared less about his grades or even the level of college he was at. It was a B tier engineering program. [b]Graduated[/b] with a not great GPA again could not care less. His career, better than his siblings that went off to Ivies, who cared about grades, etc....

Difference is he's my most motivated by working. It took us a long time as parents to parent him differently than his siblings. For me more than my DH, it was so hard to let go. But, once we did he showed us his best. All we can ask as parents. 
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Oy vey. Lady, are you serious? Your son earned an engineering degree, one of the toughest programs at any university, and you think he's comparable to a dull and apathetic teenage couch potato? Kids don't magically become prepared for engineering. You're exaggerating how bad things were. Dull kids don't take "every" AP course at one of the top public school districts in the United States and they don't "sometimes" get AP credit. They aren't in AP courses period, let alone randomly scoring 3s 4s 5s on official exams.[/quote]

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