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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly who cares? I had a friend tell me that doing puzzles and reading to my kids for 30 min a day was leaving poor families at a disadvantage. You can't win. Somehow "equality" seems to be bringing down the high achievers versus just making the pie larger for everyone. I see that with so much right now in society too.

As long as there's no cheating or abuse of the children (I knew a girl when I was in school whose parents would beat her and she studied all night and couldn't stay awake during school), prepping is great. [/quote]

Pro-TJ reform here - what your friend told you is garbage. Those of us who are in favor of TJ reform don't have any issue with parents doing right by their kids. We have an issue with a system that incentivizes spending thousands of dollars and hours on exam prep. There are those who would conflate the two - those people are nuts.[/quote]

Whites spend even more money on prepping because they pay for private tutors for test preps, classes etc. private tutors cost much more than in class tuitions so we should outlaw those first. [/quote]

White person here.  I've never known a white family in my entire life who paid for tutoring for their kids. This would be very uncommon in the white culture.  I've known white families who sent their kids to Catholic schools for a better education.[/quote]

I believe white people don't send kids for prepping at an early age but they do use prep services in HS for SAT or something else.
They do send their kids for sports prep and practices. Should we have a quota over there too? No one should prepare for anything and just show up for the exam or a sport event. Otherwise its cheating and not fair to other communities.[/quote]
Yes, this is what the majority of the white/hispanic/black people do. They just show up and take the exam and play the sport without prepping. Prep courses are a fairly new trend. [/quote]
But maybe they should.  They seem to practice sports a lot. Why not academics?  Because they don't value it as much, which is fine. Everyone has different priorities. But if other people highly value education and want to prep more, then what's it to you? Because you can't compete? Well, then practice more.

My DC is smart, magnet program, no prepping classes, but DC is not athletic.  DC sucks at sports and knows it. Feels really down about it. So, I told DC that DC needed to practice more if DC wanted to get better, but DC doesn't want to. *shrug* then you won't get better.  Academics is no different. Just like sports, some kids need more  practice than others.

If other kids are getting better at sports, then you go and practice more to keep up. Why should academics be any different?   I don't demand the sports league or school team to stop those other kids from practicing their sports several hours per day so that my kid has a fair shot without having to practice as much as those other kids.[/quote]
Not all white/hispanic/black kids are obsessed with sports, not at all. Why the hell are we all paying taxes for a subpar public education? Why are we now forced to pay for supplemental education if we want our kids to stay in the game? I think people are annoyed that this has become the standard. Academics and athletics are apples and oranges. The athletics are a joke and a huge waste of time. Furthermore, my taxes are not going towards sports teams and coaching.[/quote]

Yes they are. [/quote]

To be clear....yes your taxes are going to sports teams and coaching.[/quote]

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