| Most high schoolers have a highly developed social sense: they know when to share and when not to share. Or, they are jerks. That happens too.
Re: effect on teachers, etc. This is a legitimate question. My daughter switched schools between 10th and 11th grades, and the new school was not completely accommodating about placing her in AP classes and the like. There was a significant attitude shift after the school got her 11th grade PSAT scores. All of a sudden, the administration was going out of its way to help her. Of course, it's hard to separate the PSAT effect from the effect of her daily presence and class performance, and her social absorption into the smart/ambitious kid set. But at the time I thought the test scores helped her a lot in the front office. |