
15-07-2010, 13:15
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,766
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Re: To go to Championships...or not....
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Originally Posted by JesseK
[*]If a student honestly expects to pass any of 7 consecutive AP exams in addition to being apart of a robotics team, why do we even question the ability to study? Let the overachievers achieve in their own way. Maybe they're destined for greatness, or maybe they're destined to suddenly realize their limitations.
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This is an important point. Many high achieving students, skating by without studying a day in their life, will hit a brick wall when the material is finally hard enough to catch up with them. This has happened to so many people I know in college. If you think a student is careening toward that brick wall in high school, I would recommend that someone "talk some sense into them" to avoid being a victim of their own perfectionism, rather than assuming that because they are intelligent enough to get away with it before that they don't need your help. This may be a key situation to seriously consider disallowing or strongly discouraging a student from attending the Championship.
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