Then the hard work begins: getting on-court training and experience, whether it's local junior level, high school or college matches.

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Recognize some losses when your kid is a junior or senior in high school and you could wind up with breaks on both your income tax bills and your college bills.

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When I look back at high school, or even junior high, we had all the things that kids don't have now: woodshop, ceramics, metal class, electric class, graphic arts, graphic design.

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From this year, said Mr Wen, schools would no longer charge tuition or other fees for children having their compulsory education (up to the end of junior high school).

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