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[quote=Anonymous] Though-out K-12 my now college age kids got options of what they wanted to study. French or German, Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth etc. I took the approach of letting my kids pick whatever they wanted because they know their own interests and they will get better grades doing things they are interested in. That seemed obvious and common sense to me. However, many parents of other kids in the class disagreed. They would interfere to a sad degree, preventing kids from studying what they wanted for no good reason at all, just biases. From one Doctor dad of a 14 year old girl, “ economics is silly, nobody will respect it” and “ you won’t get into a good college with Art on your transcript “. It stems from insecurity and fear of closing doors down the road, I get it, but blocking teenagers from subjects they are passionate about seems short sighted. [/quote]
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