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Thank you for the nice reply and good news about your boy winning his game and playing great.

Here is some quick information about my oldest kid's scholarship:

http://admissions.rpi.edu/aid/medal.html

I got two full rides offered to me at that age - that was a kick for me! They were music scholarships, and were through scouts at my music competitions in high school. I didn't care about them at all, and was glad I had the choice of whether or not to take them.

I just commented to the family this morning that K1 is our first football player to be recruited. ;-) I immediately felt a tiny bit bad, because K2 was listening, and he is a bit of an underachiever at the present time, through not trying his best in several realms. For example, in math and track. Yet just yesterday, I was having an impromptu conversation with K2's principal on how his math teacher totally turned him off from math this year. He went from being a straight A student to being an A and B student, through having become disinclined to try in Mrs. Blasberg's class. She is one who gushes never-endingly about her top students - to the actual detriment of all her other students. I told the principal that at the open house in fall 2010, all Mrs. Blasberg did was to gush about the Stanford tailgating community, and about how her math and science students come back to gush about how well she prepared them - leaving 5 or 10 minutes to discuss the whole then-upcoming math 8A curriculum. At the spring 2011 open house, all she did is gush and hug her returning students, to the detriment again of being able to discuss the just-ending 8A class, and any projects that were sitting out. We were never able to greet her or discuss things with her, either time. I felt disinclined to send her a follow-up email after either event, so I guess I let my child suffer, and he didn't work to his potential, either. I am supposed to get in touch with the principal again, soon after school gets out on June 16, but again, I don't really want to, because I feel it could only hurt my child coming into the middle school system, and it could no longer help my exiting middle school child. And that's with a very helpful and responsive middle school principal with a fantastic educational paradigm. Anyway. Life will go on, and K2 will eventually rise to whichever level of cream he is meant to settle out at, I believe. Thanks for reading my missives and supporting me and my whole family, through all the years as they go by.

Best regards and love to you and your children and mother and every other relative! :-) Love, 90hazelnut

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