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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fortunately, success in life is figuring out a bunch of math analogies, and not having things like social skills/awareness, judgement, resilience, curiosity, kindness, independence, maturity, determination and, yes, ambition.   I speak as someone whose DC is attending a regional CES program next year, but didn't prep for it the the test, and consider ourselves very fortunate.  I completely understand why the sacrifice and achievement is important for some, but to "prep up the wazoo" for this particular test at this point in a child's life seems largely misguided to me.  There are so many other crucial life skills that have to be learned at that age. We weren't going to sacrifice that to prepare for this test.[/quote]
I infer from your post that you think the parents who prepped have not been trying to teach their children these other skills as well.  But I could be wrong.[/quote]

No, I think parents who prepped their children at the exclusion of other life experiences are sacrificing important things, hence the "up the wazoo" quotation.  Being unprepared for the challenges in life is not the way either.  Prepping is fine, if that's what you value, but prepping to an extreme, which is what some parents apparently do (and I have not observed that myself, but others on this board seem convinced that some group of parents do) strikes me as unbalanced and potentially counter-productive. [/quote]
I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment - to create balanced, successful kids.  But some folks on here wish to diminish the prepped-kids' accomplishments simply because they are prepped.  That smacks of middle school juvenile-ism.  Rightly or wrongly the parents of these kids feel that their kids will benefit from the CES.  These parents want to give their kids every advantage possible.  Much like many 9.9%ers - who will pull any string they can find to get their DC that first internship or job.    [/quote]

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