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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those homework loads are insane. This is why the Harvard admissions office complains about getting burned-out over-achievers who crash as freshmen.

Homework does not equal rigor. It just equals homework (and kids who never get to be kids). Well, I suppose it does accustom them early to being miserable.... They can go straight from college to law school to working 80 hour weeks at Big Law, and they can have kids who will go to Big 3 schools and do four hours of homework a night and go on to college and law school and....

Kind of makes you wonder just what it is we thik counts as "success." [/quote]

Also to 9:21 - I agree - more homework does not show a school is better - though the tone of the thread was feeling that way. I find sometime I am alone in trying to break the cycle. It take real conviction to stay the course with your kids and not fall into the AP, 4.5, SAT prep madness.

I have a friend that works at a school and he has this on his wall...

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:

“Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

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