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<p>Sylvan 8798, are you a student? How do YOU think it happened? Can this kind of recovery happen between Jr and SR year? Perhaps, JR yr pre-calc teacher was NOT such a bad teacher as DD 1 claimed. (However, DD1 was #2 in her class, and #1 and #3 and DD1 used to congregate at our house often and commiserate about thisJR yr pre-calc teacher. All it seemed she was good for was coaching volleyball. Forgive me for defining the individual students that way - it is a poor way of defining individuals). I don’t know how DD1 hit her stride and got a 5 in AP Calc. She did, but no idea how she did so well. Her college invited her to skip Intro.</p>
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<p>Very wise words. DD1 was a "questing for knowledge " HS student who fell with no pain from #1 to #2, no pain at all. Her salutatorian speech stole the show from #1 because it was so full of empathy, compassion and wisdom. I am so proud of her. She is an Engineering major at a NE LAC.</p>
<p>In contrast, DD2 and her small circle of friends are very uptight about grades and I have to refer back to your words when I counsel her. But as I think I said earlier, I think she will mature, and she and her older sister are close, and older sister will help with exploring what it means to be a student and a mature learner.</p>