<p>Uh oh, kids are socialized to want grades? What do colleges want to see? What do law and medical and other graduate schools want to see? First and foremost, despite everything they say about holistic review, they’re looking at your GPA. It’s a sad thing, and no matter colleges want to say they otherwise promote learning, they’re the ones who are perpetuating this mentality.</p>
<p>If you really want to take your kid away from this, then you should take your kid to a free school or maybe Montessori or something.</p>
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<p>I say outside of the magnet school system of your city and maybe a handful of better performing schools in wealthier areas of the city, the thousands of other students or parents simply couldn’t care less about what their GPA is or whether they go to college at all, and I find that more troubling. Less competition for me, I guess.</p>