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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did this change and why? We did not supplement in the aughts and certainly not in the 90s. [/quote]

People supplemented. My brothers went to academic summer camps for more advanced math and science. Sylvan was starting to be a thing when I was in HS. There were workbooks and tutors and the like. I would guess that the foreign language schools on the weekend were there. [/quote]

Are you Asian? I had no idea academic summer camps even existed. I can’t think of anyone I knew that went to one.  I went to an excellent public school where many classmates went on to great colleges- no one was doing this. [/quote]

Nope, White. My Mom asked the teachers for options and did research at the library. Plenty of people in our area did it.[/quote]

If your mom had to go research it at the library, plenty of people weren’t doing it.  In the 90s, white MC and UMC were not sending kids off to academic summer camps. That was incredibly uncommon.  It sounds like your brother was a special circumstance and far above peers, which is why your mother had to seek out the info[/quote]

Yes, they were.  My parents did it and so did we.   We supplement with math camos for a few years.   [/quote]
What’s a math camo?[/quote]

Camp, the o and p are next to each other on the key board. I am not the poster but it isn’t hard to figure out.

My brothers were both gifted and honors classes and the like were not challenging for them, so yes my mother had to ask for information. She also had to ask for information for her kids with LDs and she did research to find day camps and over night camps and other things that met her kids individual needs. In the 80’s and 90’s, you did that at the libraary and through word of mouth. Different opportunities were posted in public places.

And no, my brothers were not the only ones attending programs like these. I knew plenty of kids in my neighborhood that attend week long camps at colleges and the like in HS. This was common, parents shared information that they had and they knew where to go and look for additional information. It is just how it was done.

It is easier to find now and there might be more organized activities during the school year and the interest in summer programs but that is also probably more in the urban areas and in areas with higher SES families who are probably more driven to make sure that their kids are competitive for college. [/quote]

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