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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to school in this district about two decades when it was still majority white. It has always been a very academic and well regarded district but was not crazy competitive as described in the article. My class mates included Ethan Hawke ( who spent his last two years of high school in private school), the director Bryan Singer, the screenwriter Chris McQuarrie, and Jim Murphy of LTD Soundsystem.  None needed the after school Kumon to be successful.  iMO the superintendent is on the right track in bringing the school system where it use to be.  For what it's worth, I went to a top 15 college and an Ivy League law school.  [/quote]

The school district maybe majority Asian at this point so maybe they should serve them instead of trying to *bring the school system where it use to be*[/quote]

Yes, let's just keep going on this train with kids writing  suicidal essays and creating art projects demonstrating unsustainable parental pressure so their parents can have bragging rights.  Sometimes the educators are right, this  school system has a track record for success for decades.  The reason many of these kids can't get into Harvard, Princeton, Yale despite top grades is a lack of passion and creativity in learning because it has been beaten out of them in favor of rote learning.[/quote]

Back to "rote learning". Again.  Keep telling yourself that.[/quote]

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