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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BECAUSE THERE ARE HIGH SCHOOLS WHO REQUIRE STUDENTS TO DO RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH A COLLEGE PROFESSOR.

My kid had to do that. He cold-contacted dozens of profs in different universities for a school-mandated mini research project. Only one responded, and he was really nice, and my kid was very grateful and tried to take up the least amount of his time as possible. He aced the project and thanked the professor.

You don't even need to respond to these emails, OP. All we're asking is that you stop whining about children who are required by their schools to do certain things. YOU LOOK NASTY.
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This must be utter nonsense. I am a college professor. I am beholden to the students at my own institution. Why would I utilize my free time to teach a high school student? This is an asinine expectation from a high school, and so I call BS.[/quote]

Not BS. [b]The magnet program at Blair has this exact requirement,[/b] so my kid as well emailed a bunch of local profs to see if he could work on a project for the summer before his senior year.

If you don't want to help the high school kids, then just delete their emails! They are getting experience reaching out to people who work in fields they're interested in - there's literally no skin off your nose. My kid heard back from 2 of the 5 or so profs he wrote and they were very nice. He ended up doing some math research or something for the one guy, and now goes to that university, and is majoring in that department.

I think OP is kind of jerky. I'm also an academic and I  call BS on the "I'm so busy I don't have time to delete emails" line. [/quote]

Parents need to band together and stop this. You need to push back on HS teachers with these stupid requirements that are not realistic in today's world and put even more pressure on pressurized students. If we can get our kids out of gym (because they do varsity or specialized sports or whatever) we can get them out of a truly obnoxious and ridiculous assignment like this. [/quote]

What? Magnet Parents should band together and demand that the magnet program stop providing an enriched science education?!

You can...choose to not send your kid to the magnet, if you want a regular high school education.

Also, varsity sports do not count for PE credit. [/quote]

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