RE: Some parental advice from all the lovely parentals? Non parentals also welcome :D
December 12, 2015 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 4:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That it would be an athletic wash, in that case...a coin flip..as mentioned before. However, and again I'm an endgame kind of parent..if you successfully challenge her -in that environment- (as opposed to at home) you run the risk of dropping her out of a top academic spot relative to her peers and into a larger pool in the upper percentile (in a perfect world..assuming that it isn't more difficult than anticipated and she underperforms). You basically manufacture competition for college scholarships where once there was none or less.
All that matters so me, with my kids, is creating better odds for the college game...and I accept that I have very little leverage here.
All that matters so me, with my kids, is creating better odds for the college game...and I accept that I have very little leverage here.
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