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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, at this age,  [u]your kid is getting 99% in some test not because of the school but some enrichment at home. [/u]

The enrichment could be as subtle as picking up the extensive vocabulary that college educated parents use, living in a functional family, having a social network where achievements in Arts and Sciences is celebrated, exploring the zoo, museum and parks in the regions, learning an instrument, being cared by grandparents who are educated etc, etc.

Trying to get enrichment @homeschool for kids who did not go to CES will not happen...ever. There is a workaround for it (and I did the same for one of my kids) but it requires a whole lot of your attention, time and money.  Just to be fair - even if your kid is in a magnet program, please don't expect that program to meet all their needs. You still need to use all your resources and opportunities to enrich them.

I know a lot of parents (most with children in magnets) who form informal groups and make sure that their kids are doing all kinds of enrichment, acceleration etc.  However, those that win big in these kinds of endeavors are usually people who know very well what opportunities to pursue, and who have a core group of like minded parents with them.   You can research what opportunities to pursue, but, you cannot create a core group of parents around you who value the education and EC like you do. The most successful groups that I have seen are the parents who belong to the Tiger Parent ethnic groups - Russians, Jews, Asians - and have a cultural roadmap to success to follow and trust.

- parent of magnet kids (current and alum)[/quote]

Did you not think I understood your first sentence? My kid is already getting "enrichment" at home from us, per most of your post. Not via any sort of outside tutoring or anything, we just sort of provide it naturally because we are huge nerds.

I guess I could be clearer about my motivations, so here goes:

[b]I am not interested in securing "enrichment" for my own, personal child at all costs, or almost any cost! I am not going to send her to Kumon, I only have the vaguest idea of what Khan Academy even does, summer camp = running around in the woods, and I sent her to a hippie, play-based preschool. I don't necessarily even care if she goes to college!

Since she [i]has to[/i] attend school, I wouldn't mind if it were a little more challenging and interesting to her. But I'm not worried about her "falling behind" or not "living up to her potential" if it's not. Maybe a tiny bit nervous about her tuning school out if it's totally unchallenging, but not really.[/b]

One of my friends, whose kid is also in the 99th percentile, said, "Hey, if we can't get anything from [Principal], maybe we can meet after school for our own enrichment group?" And I was a little rude with my knee-jerk reaction, lol (I apologized-- it's fine, we're close, she totally got it and is mostly same-page.). I don't think that kind of thing is worthwhile enough for my kid to replace her reading or running around after school.

Also, PP, I categorically reject your essentialist characterization of "Tiger Parent ethnic groups." But anyhow.[/quote]

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