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clothes one should wear to a job interview. Chang says that the school also discusses plans to attend universities in an "unrelenting" manner. The school assigns individual groups of students to a faculty member for all four years as part of its "advisory" system. Chang said that the system "ensures that each child has a surrogate parent at the school and helps to inculcate the values and behavioral norms associated with the college-bound upper middle class."
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for academic achievement and also "qualities like helping others," and that the praise, given on a daily basis from teachers, and the "celebration" assembly, held every week, "convince students that they can be the first in their families to go to college, if only they work hard." Wendy Kopp of
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