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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever. Just keep pushing your kids. Make sure they are a full year ahead at math. It doesn’t matter. Our kids will end up making the same salary in 20, 30, 40 years from now.
Push push push. It’s all the same.
Your kid is a year ahead? They have a 4.6 gpa?
Cool beans 
See that kid over there? He’s got a 3.8. 
Those kids will have remarkably similar outcomes. 
None of this matters.

It’s totally fine that some kids crave a challenge. Let then have it. Hopefully they will also be well rounded. Do what you can.
[b]Just don’t expect exponentially different outcomes[/b]. [/quote]
DP... I don't see anyone saying they think their kid will make oodles more than your kid. I think Asian Americans know that we have to have outperform academically in order to get into colleges like even UMD College Park, good school, but not even top tier. That's the hurdle we are facing.

BTW, my kids have never gone to a prep type class, ever.  They had Singapore math workbooks when they were in ES, which they did off and on. I never had a set time for them to do it.  My one DC is now in a magnet, and this DC actually hardly ever did the Singapore math workbook. I ended up giving it to DC#2, who does it.. well, I can't even remember the last time DC cracked open that workbook. Both kids are a year ahead in math.

I used to also judge parents for sending their kids to after school tutoring, but you know what?  I don't so much anymore.  As long as the kid does other things and has some free time to socialize, why is it such a big deal if they spend a couple of hours every week in a cram school. What else should they do with those hours? Play on their computers? That's why my DC#1 does... too much of it. Sometimes I think about putting DC#1 in after school tutoring, but I don't because it's not a priority for me.  I do make sure DC does other things, though.

I don't agree with pushing kids too hard in anything, be it sports or academics.   I've seen some parents in the magnet program want their children to be two, three years ahead in math. I don't know if their kid is actually a math whiz or they are just pushy. I've also seen parents push their kids in sports, and I don't know if the kid wants it more than the parents sometimes or vice versa.

A child doing only sports is not well rounded, just as a child who only knows academics is not well rounded.
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