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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some perspective here parents.  Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but "good student" "outstanding student" is meaningless.  Most of you don't know what top academics are.  For example, my kids went freshman year to a private HS instead of the giant but excellent public HS.  Before HS , they were in gifted programs.  So they get to HS and honors classes were a JOKE.  This is a good school - but really, they don't even offer AP physics.  The public schools are excellent in our area and people send their kids to this school so their kid can make the team, be in the play, cheer.....be somebody.   A lot of the IB classes - not that tough either...[/quote]

Astute post. People are incredibly insular and never realize their kid is a dime a dozen. They also fall victim to comparing their kid to kids in the same high school. There are 27,000 high schools in the U.S., plus if your kid goes to a decent university and a competitive career, they're competing against international students, too. At the overwhelming majority of those 27,000 high schools, even valedictorian and salutatorian makes your kid a dime a dozen – let alone merely top 10% or 20% of their specific high school class.

With regard to sports, my in-laws always facebook brag about their teen daughter winning swim competitions and regional awards at her [b]mediocre public high school in a depressed region.[/b] The comments act like she's a future Olympian. However, when she swims in the big statewide tournaments over the summer, she isn't even in the top 100 for her age. So big fish in a little pond at her podunk high school but a nobody around half-decent competition.[/quote]

Check yourself. [/quote]

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