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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, ignore the jackass above. I totally agree with you. I come from an extremely well educated family and when I was growing up the idea of doing a ton of extra academics outside of school would have been bizarre. Tutoring was for dumb kids who couldn’t keep up, not for smart kids who were able to thrive on their own. I attended a pretty good school district, maybe my parents would have felt differently if our schools hadn’t been good. Attended a very competitive college and now in an excellent career and I’m glad I spent my childhood doing things other than academics day in day out.

Of course we did tons of sports/arts after school but this was driven by our interests and not for the goal of enrichment. I was a voracious reader but that was also self motivated. Renaming reading books for fun “enrichment” destroys all the fun, no? [/quote]

First of all, education has drastically changed when you went to school.  Now it’s all about equity and race to the bottom.  Kids above grade level are being ignored.

So either you don’t have a kid or your kid is not above grade level, or you are in denial about the decline in the educational system.

As stated above, we supplement to fill in the gaps and for greater depth and challenge which DS is not finding at school.[/quote]

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