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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes I think that "culture of achievement" referred to really is just helicopter parenting..making sure Billy always has someone right by his side making sure things go well.  Grades slip..here is a tutor.  Like French?  Let's go to France this summer.  Raise your hand in your tiny class, instant attention.  I am not sure this creates a self sufficient, self inspired individual.  There are many parts to an education and self sufficiency is a huge one.[/quote]

I'm not the PP but I do get this. My 9yo kid hates school, plain and simple. He's not disinterested in learning - he actually has had weird obsessions with certain things since he was little and reads tons of nonfiction - but he just hates having to sit still and do classwork. He does it, because he has no other choice, and because he goes to a close-in high-performing public school where even in a classroom of 25 kids, the teachers are engaged. And the parents are engaged. And many if not most of the other kids are well-behaved and genuinely interested in learning. This is what I would call a "culture of achievement." If a kid like my son wound up at a school that didn't have this kind of culture, either because it was a poorly managed school or because a lot of the families in the school were too stressed by more immediate needs like working around the clock or worrying about where the next meal is coming from, it would be a disaster. He would definitely be getting into a lot of trouble, and he would certainly have failed math and writing. So yeah, I'm happy to live in the crappiest house in one of those mostly upper-income schools so that my kid will have a better chance of doing well in school. I want him to be "a self-sufficient, self-inspired (?) individual," but honestly right now he needs to master basic math first.[/quote]

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