When I'm a parent.......
I really hope when people ask how my kids are doing, I don't respond with a long synopsis of, "well, she has a 98% in AP biology. She's the only freshman in the class and her teacher just thinks she is great. In Math she has a...."
Yes, this happened to me the other day when I ran into a former students parent. I politely asked how her child is doing and she responded with her grades.
I don't want to be the parent with an honor roll sticker (maybe because I never got one) but I just don't want to capitalize on my childs intelligence and exclude their CHARACTER.
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