<p>“There is a pervasive feeling in public schools that it is cool to be rebellious and to receive bad grades”</p>
<p>-This is sooo far from thruth, I have no where it even exists. Not in schools that my S. (public) and my D (private) went. Frankly, D. has never ever discussed academics with any of her friends (in HS, at college, in Med. School). The only time we knew in HS was at graduation, when the top kid got parents’ award, no VALs, no SALs, no ranking, no discussion whatsoever. We knew our kids’ grades and nobody else. So, how they even know who has what grades? It is pretty much big secret.</p>