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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you were a kid, college wasn’t an assumption. Now, more kids are going to college, so there is a push to make things more academic. You see it as not academic, yet in FCPS and MCPS and Arlington there is a push to get all 8th graders to take algebra and have 6th graders take it as well. More kids are taking AP classes than when you were a kid. So basically, you perspective is skewed and things are more academic so parents want their kids to get even further ahead and they use tutoring to help. [/quote] No... the actual foundations were stronger in the past. Yes, there are more AP classes, but they are now much easier to pass and the requirements have been watered down. You are deluding yourself if you think that kids are more "academic" now. It is a veneer.[/quote]
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