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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, the reality is - and you’re not going  to like this - some of those kids are just smarter. They don’t have to work as hard. Particularly the ones also excelling at sports. They aren’t “winning” because they’re doing so much more. This isn’t all of those kids, but a chunk. The lesson is that there is always going to be someone smarter than you, better than you, richer than you, someone less smart, less gifted, less affluent. Comparison is silly. Success is not pie, someone having some doesn’t mean you can’t have any. Sure it may for these honors right now, but not in any big picture sense. Let her make peace with being average. Average is okay. [/quote]

There are those lucky students who understand the content easily and don’t have to study much to do well.  But excelling at sports is not connected to being smarter.   If that were the case my extended family would be a bunch of geniuses and that didn’t happen.  I come from a very athletic family.  Some professional, most high school and college and kept it up throughout adulthood.  But none of them would be mistaken for the smartest guy in the room.

There’s usually controversy at the big universities over giving athletes easier work because they are future professionals but college work proves tough for them.    [/quote]

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