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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education is too important to be left to the educators alone - Private or Public, push your kids so that they can achieve their true potential.[/quote]

Push all you want for the limited time you have in the evening.

They are in school for 6 hours a day and when they remove the motivation to recieve true letter grades, and graded homework, and teach well below a child's capability the educators are not doing their job.

The title of this thread was underachieving kids, scholastically my kids are overachievers and I have never pushed them.  The one in the HGC is doing okay, but the others are losing all motivation to learn because the work is brain numbing, they say they spend alot of time stting with nothing to do.

I am having to do supplementation at home for the first time ever.

You can't push when they are not recieving a good basic foundational education in school.[/quote]

This is not just about grades.  This is about what kind of person you want your child to be.  Do you want them to be motivated by just grades, or money later in life, or the intrinsic value of trying your best.

My DC sucks at soccer, but DC likes it.  Never makes a goal, but we keep telling DC to try DC's best.  If during the game, DC did the best DC could, even it meant messing up a few times, we tell DC we were proud.  Same for school work.[/quote]

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