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[quote=Anonymous]Your 5 closest friends, people you spend the most time with will determine who you become. We pulled my kids out of public for HS. My younger one was gravitating to the non-ambitious, going down the wrong road types. He’s a junior now and proud of straight As and hangs out with the honors kids from good families with lots of ambition and good values—kindness, community service. Before it was not cool to be an academic. My older son found his core group in public school and would have succeeded either way since he always was around good kids. As parents, we saw what was necessary to change our younger one’s course. Older kid is at an Ivy and his peer group is very much like his childhood friend group—nice, motivated, supportive with life ambitions. We will not send our younger one to a big tailgate/party school — the more “serious” the campus, the better for him. He aspires to follow older sib. [/quote]
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