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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for that voice of reason

[b]There is 0 reason for any kid/ family to be doing things at home to accelerate.[/b]

If the kid is extremely smart they should just skip a grade.  The obsession of thinking so many kids are bored and need more challenging content is ridiculous

In the real world no one cares when you took algebra.[/quote]

There's plenty of  reasons.  Some kids have an interest in  math,  some kids love to read at home and go after more advanced material without their parents pushing them. For others, they may attend foreign schools part of the year, or they plan to return to their home country.

For other kids, they want to take advanced subjects for admission to a competitive college (thus they care about when you took algebra), or to graduate early from college which has huge financial benefits given the cost of education.  [/quote]

My tax dollars shouldn't be paying for that.  If you want unique instruction pony up for private school.  You can't demand public schools deal with this acceleration.[/quote]

Your viewpoint is idiotic.  It doesn't and shouldn't cost taxpayers a dime more to teach advanced materials to advanced kids.  It requires the same number of teachers and costs the same amount of money to offer 5 regular classes and 1 advanced class than it does to offer 6 regular classes.  It's obviously a better use of money to actually teach the advanced kids rather than have them sit around learning nothing all day.

Plus, we need more scientists, engineers, doctors, and so on.  The best way to achieve that is to have kids do more rather than doing less.  Nothing is gained by learning less.  [/quote]

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