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Parent Support Ladder (NACAC) 

  1.  Encourage positive work attitudes.  2.  emphasize importance of school.  3.  recognize degrees of competency.  4.  recognize doinbg one's best as success.  5.  express respect for effort.  6.  become involved in child's school work.  7.  encourage mastery of basic skills.  8.  provide a constructive study climate.  9.  serve as home teacher or tutor  10. maintain a school link.  11. encourage extracurricular/outside school activities.  12. recognize school as work.  13. recognize there are many places where learning can take place.  14. recognize that education is a lifelong process.

Excerpt from: "Parents and Counselors Together (PACT)"
National Association for College Admissions Counselors (NACAC)

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