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I don't get it.  If you pay for baseball camps, golf lessons, or swim coaching to be a better athlete we celebrate your effort. [i] If you pay for tutoring to become a great at math we look down on you as wasting your life[/i].  Academic achievement takes people much farther professionally than does athletic achievement.  I think the country is better served by greatness in the classroom rather than on the athletic fields.  [/quote]

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This is just not an accurate assessment of what we're talking about here.

These are not kids who are paying for tutoring to become great at math. These are kids who are paying for tutoring to become good enough at math first to get into TJ, and then to survive it. This is not kids paying for a little extra help to get them over the hump in some international math competition that is going to be their ticket to greatness - I have no problem with that. These are kids who are paying for the ability to take up space in an elite school where they may or may not belong.

We already have a built-in mechanism for kids to excel at academic subjects, and it's called SCHOOL. We already have a built-in mechanism for kids in Northern Virginia to get an exception STEM-focused but well-rounded education, and it's called TJ. [/quote]

Ah yes.  A good ole' fashion rationalization.  [/quote]

Or make a point[/quote]

My point is that the OP gave an accurate analogy, and a rationalization was provided as a rebuttal. [/quote]

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