A student’s time is valuable. Some of the best years of your life can seem clogged up with schoolwork and extracurricular activities, leaving very little time for fun stuff like hanging out with your friends and family. The schoolwork is unavoidable and, for the college-minded student, so are the extracurriculars. But there are some things …

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Rod, a high school freshman, asks: “Are teachers out to get me? Why do all my teachers assign assignments at once?” Mr. Sterling answers:  They aren’t out to get you; teachers just don’t take the time to plan assignments together in high school. One of the things that struck me when I moved from teaching 7th grade to …

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