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[quote]My take is that if you want to give your kid a somewhat chance at an Ivy then you probably ARE condemning him/her to 4 hours homework a night in high school, anywhere you send the child.  Personally, I would gut-check the goal of an Ivy before you send them down that path.  These days, many of those Ivy-going kids are not close to being "whole person" developmentally when they get in, and then they are on the HabiTrail grind once more, when they get out.  Again, personally, not the kind of life I pray my kid experiences.  The better bet is to encourage them to develop their gifts when they are young, get them a decent post-high school education somewhere, then they do their thing in young adulthood.  They'll figure it all out eventually.  I don't have the same confidence in the maturation & development of Ivy school kids, not post-millenium, not at all.[/quote]

plus 1,000

PS sorry but what does "the HabiTrail grind" mean??????????????
What does HabiTrail  mean????????????????

clueless but hopeful longterm DCUM member and poster (although I have yet to identify "Chipotle Mom")[/quote]

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