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<li> Every parent who sends a child away to college will feel suicidal with longing for said child. (No CC parent ever says, "Hooray! Now I have space for my crafts room and time to go to the gym!)</li>
<li> The empty nest means your life is over.</li>
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<li>Boarding school is commonplace.</li>
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<li>A “lesser” school will never turn out to have the most of what an individual student wants; only students who “couldn’t do better” or did not want to take out loans ever go to an honors college by choice.</li>
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<li> “If a student does not take calculus as a high school junior or earlier, s/he is ‘behind’ in math.”</li>
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<p>I don’t know about you @ucbalumnus. At our kids district…
145. If a student does not take calculus as a high school sophomore…with MVCalculus in their senior year at their local CC or online…they have no chance at Stanford or MIT…</p>
<p>…maybe not even Rutgers. </p>
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<li>There is an East Coast. A West Coast. And a whole lot of nothin’ in the middle. </li>
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