Title: beware of low expectations
Review: The authors state that a C average in school is OK as most of us are around average in our abilities. Obviously (statistically) we are. The problem with this is that a C, a 2.0, is not average in school. The average GPA was 2.68 in 1990, rising to 2.94 in 2000, and to 3.0 in 2005. (National Assessment of Educational Progress) Thus if your child is getting all B's, he or she is average and maybe you can relax. A child with C's as typical grades is decidedly not average--all the more so because such a child is probably taking the most basic level of classes. Maybe such a child is doing the best he or she can, in which case fine. But don't be fooled into thinking that a C is average and is OK if your child is not working up to his or her potential. A C means that your child is way below average.I found this attitude of having very low expectations to be all too prevalent in the book.
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