| I can point to two things.
The school is competitive. So the kid has to be bright and ready work hard (kids at bottom 50% tend to be unhappy and to stay on the top one needs both brains and persistence, one of the two is not enough). On the other hand a kid should be relaxed about not getting perfect grades, ready to not always be the first, not jealous. There will be kids who are way ahead of everyone at one subject or the other. In your own class there will be winneres of EVERY competition that you will loose, and it should not poison your life. Finally, you should be able to interrupt for having fun even if you seem to have an iinfinite amount of homework.
The school is expensive. Some kids are rich. If you are not, you should be cool about it. |