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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have to add tutoring to the list of activities then you've gone too far. Activities should never interfere with school work and adequate sleep. I had an amusing conversation with a middle school parent who was complaining that her son's baseball schedule was making him fall behind in school and that she had to take him to Kumon. I was like, why don't you drop down to a rec league or pause sports. Some parents think sports is the only way to get admitted to college and forget that grades matter for everyone unless they are some 1 in a million prodigy. (Her son was no such prodigy.)[/quote] That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Kumon just sends more work home for the kids. If a kid was really falling behind that hour would be better spent just getting the homework done. Kumon wastes more time and sends extra work home, it’s not tutoring. Falling behind may be relative here, probably more like not being a full year ahead of peers.[/quote]
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