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The child's performance at school, how school rules, situations and other issues may affect the child, etc.

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My son wants to do competitive programming

Smart kids can easily be bored in school and funneling the extra brain capacity into something productive and quite valuable is a really good thing (as compared to becoming bored, disruptive, demotivated … High school grades may be important in the college admission process but so are extracurricular activities. That depends a lot on local culture and admission procedures. …
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How to talk to school/nursery personnel about the quality of language?

Some of our kids spoke ok German when they got into high school were actual German lessons were offered. …
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Effect of homeschool on college chances?

Unfortunately college admission is a very confusing and opaque process which is quite different for any individual college so this is almost impossible to answer in general (assuming you are talking a …
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Private school vs bad public school for a young child

The racial diversity spawned some interesting programs: there was a pre-school program for kids who's native language was neither English, Spanish or Paortugues (large Brazilian community) which was great … Only you can decide what exactly a "good" or a "bad" school is. …
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Walk or Drive to school?

In Germany, it's perfectly normal and accepted that kids get themselves to school either by walking, biking or regular public transportation (there are no school busses) at a fairly young age (2nd or 3rd … When our kids where in a US primary school we occasionally walked them to school (which was super fun) but we had work with the school to put a special process in place how to sign them in our out when …
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