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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]physical activity is important, but doing an organized physical activity is not  [/quote]

+100 My son loves soccer and I'm glad he does it because he enjoys it. I am under NO delusion that his soccer team experience is a life building skill and he should be guaranteed a C-suite job because of this.

The focus on sports is a throw back to the old tradition of the rich white guy that played on the football team, was a football star and then became CEO or senior level of a company. While most of these guys ended up selling mattresses, the stories of the congressmen or CEO's reminiscing about how their football days gave them the leadership skills to succeed created a powerful myth that fools still buy into today.

[b]White parents see sports as a path into popularity and success.[/b] It may have been this way in the manufacturing and managerial era but not in the Information Age. Nerds rule now. [/quote]

Yes! I see this all the time. Most parents have a desire for their child to be part of a group, and sports is the way to do it. [/quote]

So sports is the only way to do it.  Those who have their kids compete on Math Team, Quiz Bowl, Robotics teams don't count and their kids should be encouraged not to excel in their competition of choice because some families feel that their children are disadvantaged by families who choose to tutor their children outside of school.

Right.

I think that families complaining about outside tutoring need to get used to the fact that their bright but lazy students are middle-tracked instead of fast tracked in school.  If they want to choose to balance their child's life without any outside academic tutoring, that's fine, but does not guarantee them anything beyond the standard middle track schooling.[/quote]

NP here.  In AAP, I often hear the complaint that heavily tutored kids would not be in AAP, if they were not heavily tutored - so there is some validity in the argument. I don't know whether the heavy tutoring  (4-6 times per week, in every subject currently taken by the tutored student) is a cultural thing or not. Honestly, do you think everyone should be in AAP?  Doesn't it lose it's effectiveness if more people are in AAP than general education?  Maybe the AAP kids who don't need the tutoring should be in their own classes? Maybe all the preparation is not fair to the kids who are naturally bright.  I don't have a dog in this fight, as my kids have graduated.  But I could see how at some point, AAP will be for everyone. So what is the point?  [/quote]

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