Cope as an Essential Life Skill - Nat Eliason's Newsletter

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Cope as an Essential Life Skill Go Fox Go Nat Eliason Jan 23, 2023 64 6 Share Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked, 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.' Thomas Jefferson High, aka TJ, is the #1 high school in the country. It also happened to be 20 minutes from my house. It was the dream school for a motivated Fairfax County kid, and most 8th graders’ parents pushed them to enter the application gauntlet. I remember touring it and seeing

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