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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is so much math phobia in this thread.  Larlo does travel sports and spends 3 hours/night on his sport.  That's great!  Carla is an elite pianist and practices 2 hours every day.  Awesome!  Larla is a bookwork who reads for hours after school every day.  Bob takes art classes and draws all of the time.  Sally is in a chess club and spends a ton of time practicing for tournaments.  Billy is spending an hour every night learning to speak German.  All of these are great!  Chloe takes a single math enrichment class, and collectively everyone clutches their pearls and starts grumbling about ruining childhood, too much pressure, and those damn strivers.  Nobody grumbles that any of the other kids worked too hard, didn't truly earn their advanced status, and shouldn't be given advanced opportunities.  They only do so for math.

It seems like the parents grumbling about the striver culture think that no kids could possibly love math and that math is the one and only activity that is not acceptable for after school classes or enrichment.  People here seem to think that kids should be placed according to their level of advancement in everything except math.  In math, working harder and being more advanced = cheating and stealing the glory from the kids who are naturally more brilliant.   [/quote]

exactly.[/quote]

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