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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ironically, the main kids I know who supplement are the self-proclaimed geniuses at Anderson. The parents there will claim that it is because their kids are so smart that they need to be further challenged, but I find this questionable as those kids do no better at the top high schools than the kids I'm referencing above. The school is just a bit of a conformist cult.[/quote]

I'm the previous public school poster and while we don't see a lot of supplementing now aside from SHSAT prep, we did see a ton of it a few years ago when we lived in the suburbs - for whatever reason, that school district made the MAP tests into a *huge deal*, every kid knew their score and compared scores and got stressed about scores, and this seems to have inspired parents to panic and spend lots of money on unnecessary tutoring. Often for very smart kids who didn't need it and complained to my also-smart daughter constantly about how incredibly boring it was to spend two hours a week doing endless Kumon problems. (they didn't actually use the scores for anything like class placements or a magnet school or whatever, it was purely an ego thing)

So I certainly believe tutoring is happening in some places - and maybe even certain schools in NYC - but I don't think it's necessary in most cases. And I suspect a lot of the same sorts of people who subject their kids to it in public schools are also doing so in private ones.[/quote]

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