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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP - When parents do this, they tell their kids during their most formative years that

1) I don't think you're that special if people find out who you really are

2) I'm preemptively taking away your chance to experience what it's like to earn your own way because I already knew you wouldn't succeed

3) I care about flexing HYPMS to strangers more than I care about giving you an authentic education that develops your real interests and talents

I worry for OP's DD. When life gets hard (and it will for everyone, even if you "went to school in the Boston area"), the poor kid will always have a nagging voice in her head that her own mother doesn't have confidence in her. [/quote]
1) A college acceptance is not social acceptance.

2) 99.9% of kids who "earn their own way" wouldn't "succeed" if you define "succeeding" as getting into HYPSM, so this is correct assuming you define success in that manner.

3) Isn't this what school is for? The only people who should be concerned with the "authenticity" of their kids education are crunchy homeschoolers - the rest have entrusted their children's education to their schools.[/quote]

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