[quote=svelte][quote=Coronita]I really didn’t want my kid to go to Canyon Crest Academy.

This is not going to be fun. I tried convincing taking an easier life approach. Take more electives, photography, digital arts, etc. Oh well. At least we’re just disagreeing on school choices , not drugs, alcohol, friends, relationships…yet….[/quote]

Spot on. I do agree it is a fine school and if the son/daughter chooses to push themselves harder than you’d like, more power to them! I’m sure you do, but support their choices even if you disagree…they are doing what interests them and that almost always pays off in the end.

Unless what interests them is a history or liberal arts degree lol.[/quote]

As long as history and liberals arts degree isn’t the final act, I think it’s ok. Lots of history and liberals arts degree undergrads end up doing law, government, and management consulting. I remember companies like McKinsey, Bain, etc hiring a lot of well grounded liberal arts majors.

In America, a lot of it is how well you sell it. Technical know-how takes a back seat to almost all, except the very top 1%. Of course, there are also a lot of directionless liberal arts majors that end up as a starbucks barrista.