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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I (public school parent whose child is doing Kumon) would be seriously irate if I needed to spend money on Kumon in addition to private tuition!  I console myself in spending for Kumon that I'm NOT paying private tuition, so it's o.k. if I have to spend a little on extras.

If I was paying $25K for elementary school, I would expect that they would ENSURE my child got basic math skills.  With public, you take what they give you and add on where your child needs.... but the cost is $0 (for school).[/quote]

Actually, tuition has NOT been 25K since 2006. Tuition is more like 31K , but I digress. Here is what I see feeding Kumon's popularity : Private schools follow the latest and greatest in educational theory and they purchase their  math curriculums and their text books from educators who embrace these new theorists. This teaching method then hits the fan when the parents of enrolled children ( public and private) don't see their child learning to " carry the one" and memorize times tables as they did. Add to the dynamic here that this is Washington where parents don't just want Johnny to take over the family farm one day, but to go on to Harvard and take over the world.... Any obstacle to that MUST be overcome, any failure to notice a deficit that could one day , horrors, affect a test score must be rooted out. So, off we go to Kumon at age 4 or age 6 or age 7 prior to the ERB or whatever test is imagined will be the fatal test result that is responsible for DC's life going horribly wrong.

The parents of kids applying to schools see "the competition" ( read: their child's classmates) doing Kumon, so what good mother would not give her child " the same advantage"
After, all every parent knows at least one "very nice family" whose child did not "get in" to their first choice school.

WHAT, does any of this have to do with age appropriate learning and school/play balance no one seems to ask.

Kumon meanwhile is raking it in hand over fist and probably its owner/francise founder laughing his/her ass off while he/she counts their money. [/quote]

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