Originally Posted by master of none
It reminds me of something I heard on NPR in the fall. There was a famous liberal arts college who was going over the applications as a committee. They totally dismissed the application of kid who had started with APs in their freshman year, and went for a kid who had tried three different religions because they thought that kid was more interesting and open to new ideas.


I'd see the silver lining in that-my kids would have been MISERABLE if they'd been accepted to a school that valued the flaky kid over the driven kid.

And I feel your pain, OP, about having to constantly advocate (I call it dropping the hammer) for your kid in public schools.

Again, I look at the silver lining: my kids see that an exceptional education is something you have to fight for, and they appreciate it.