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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I grew up my father told me from a young age that school was my job. Yes my parents paid for care, gas, insurance and spending money. It was an older car and the spending money was not unlimited by any means.  I had at least as much money as someone working 15 hours a week as pocket money.

I have a 17 year old and do the same thing with her. She get everything paid for and I give maybe $50 a week for incidentals.

She is a now a junior and will qualify for National Merit Scholar. She will be applying for some top schools that are very eager to get students with her great grades (perfect 4.0) and perfect SAT score (1600).  I'm fairly confident that she would not have been able to do this if she was required to work a part-time job. During last summer she spent almost 20 hours a week during the summer (when not traveling) on studying for the PSAT/SAT. This was her job and she really hammered at it.

Every kid is different and I do not for a minute that everyone should do what I do.  But the $5k that she might have earned is far less than the scholarships that she will earn for college.  [/quote]

So she will get into a college she is truly not meant to be in. When most of the rest with perfect scores can knock it out quickly and own their own, she will be falling behind looking for 20 hours a week to study for each final exam. Sounds dreadful. [/quote]

Your so stupid its comical.  There are a couple of tests that define where you go in life.

College - PSAT / SAT / ACT

Medical School - MCAT

Business School - GMAT

Law School - LSAT

These are in combination with your grades from school that you literally spend thousands of hours on. So spending 8 weeks (some off weeks for travel) at 20 hours per week is 160 hours plus maybe another 100 hours during August, September and October is lets say 240 hours.

Lets compare this to playing on the football team in high school.

10 week season plus 3 week preseason plus 2 weeks playoff @ 12.5 hours a week (2 1/2 hours a day which excludes travel time to away games etc)  This is 187.5 hours in one season or 750 hours for a 4 year athlete. Makes the 240 hours sound reasonable yet?

Also if you believe that the high scoring students don't study, do you also believe that top tier football players don't lift weights? Practice during off-season?

Your thinking is WAY off-base!

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The irony of your first sentence [/quote]

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