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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's because there's a lot of status anxiety around here. It translates into the irrational fear that something about the teacher or the curriculum is going to hold back your kid and then he won't achieve his full potential and get into Harvard, so he'll just be a big fat failure, or something. Plus, the internet is full of unhappy stories but not too many happy ones. It's a very different environment than when I was a kid. I can't even imagine my parents looking up the average scores at our elementary school before we moved there, or the number of kids on free lunch, or the matriculation rates to Ivy League schools. And yet somehow we got educated and built good careers and had good lives. If you hear complaints, first consider the source. If it's someone who seems to have this kind of status anxiety about other things, that's probably it.

For us: average rated public elementary school in Montgomery County, very warm community and kids who are happy to go to school, reading at a high level, developing a lot of interests and asking important questions. It's all good. I do get annoyed with common core math homework, though. It's not how I was taught so I don't know how to help them with it.[/quote]

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