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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Most of us are not bitter and distrustful of anyone outside our own families. Most of us are not paranoid that the educational system is trying to keep our children out of some special program.[/quote]

I agree, but many of use are not stupid or bitter enough to leave the education of our children solely in the hands of FCPS, a lacrosse stick, video games and a daily calendar filled with play dates.  We prefer to prepare our children for life and the world they are about to enter.  [/quote]

First of all, what's with the weird obsession with lacrosse? It keeps getting mentioned here.

Second, if you would like to prepare your children for life and the world they are about to enter, I would highly suggest involvement in some sort of team sport. Any sport will do, it doesn't have to be lacrosse (which I get is someone's idea of code for the "entitled").

Life is about knowing how to work with and as a team. It is not about hiding in your house, doing anything you can to have an advantage over other kids, worried that some other kid will sneak in and steal your "prize." Life is about working together, "going the distance", passing the ball to someone else when necessary and being in the right place to have the ball passed back to you when necessary.

A child will learn many more worthwhile lessons about how to lead a good life from being a valuable member of a team than he or she will ever learn from practicing the same sets of test questions over and over. Adults spend most of their adult working lives needing to work in some kind of a team situation and they will greatly benefit from learning how to work with others early in life. Team sports are a great place to learn these lessons.
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You're not Asian, are you?[/quote]

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