It is a weeknight. Dinner is done, the dishwasher is humming, and a parent is pottering around the kitchen, half-listening to a podcast, when the thought arrives: I hope they're studying for that test on Thursday. The walk down the hallway is quiet. A soft knock on...
A May playbook for parents of middle and upper school students. Most students wait until June to have the grade conversation. By June it is over. The gradebook is almost closed and the teacher has heard the same appeal from a dozen students that week. The window that actually matters...
Course selection season is happening right now. Most parents don't know what their child's transcript is being measured against. The conversation happening in a lot of houses this month A version of this exchange is taking place at dinner tables across the country right now. A...
If you're the parent of a middle schooler, the course assignment email for next year either just landed in your inbox or it will soon. And for a lot of families, that email raises a question that's hard to answer from the outside: how did the...
The placement decision came back, and your child is not in the advanced math class. As their parent, you believe that they should be. The question now is what to actually do about it. There is a path forward. Schools build appeal processes for a reason, and the summer between...