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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm having trouble figuring out where OP and other parents on this thread think supplementing-at-home starts and ends in its interface with your garden variety domesticity in the homes of affluent, uber educated parents.  For example, we are a geography oriented family, meaning that we have "map time" before bed, rather than reading-a-story-time. We play "globe games" in the evenings, just for fun.  Does our quirky bedtime routine constitute supplementing?  We don't drill the kids in any subject in particular outside of the DCPS curriculum, but speak a language other than English at home (and consistently require the kids to answer in the language), and love history, politics, literature, anthropology, archeology and so forth.  The kids pick up on our intellectual interests, and run with some of them in their reading, summer camp and play choices. We will opt out of standardized testing, lacking interest in how our children would score on the PARCC.  Are we supplementing by making unusual lifestyle choices, or simply celebrating our joy of nerdy pursuits in a manner that draws in the next generation?

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I hate when people do this. This thread is NOT about you and you know this is NOT what PPs were talking about. Go gush about your awesomeoness somewhere else.[/quote]

It's a fair point. With so many braniacs on the Hill these days, no shortage of kids whose parents earned multiple STEM graduate degrees and have high-powered jobs.  These kids tend to learn more at home than at school, even if official supplementing isn't done. [i][b]At Brent, we've got some students whose parents are NASA engineers, because the agency's HQ is a few blocks away. These parents design Mars rovers and satellites, and instill an appreciation of math learning in their children.[/b][/i] I hate it when people pretend that DC public schools are where the children of the highly educated do most of their learning.
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Indeed, it's difficult to imagine why such special snowflakes attend school at all!  The sun doesn't revolve around them yet, but Mars, its rovers and the satellites already do.  Their gravitational pull will affect those test scores at Stuart Hobson any second now - really.

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