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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Applications for admissions to most private schools in the DMV area area keep getting more competitive every year. One school we are applying to for 9th ( from our K-8) told us that applications have been up 70% this year. 
I can understand why applications were up during the pandemic , but why are people still increasingly applying to privates five years later ?
Has the quality of education gone down at the public schools? Did people do well in the stock market over the past few years? 
Just asking a genuine question. 
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Liberal obsession with DEI means academic rigor dumbing down public schools. [/quote]
I think it’s more that the obsession with test prepping and its reliance on rote learning is increasingly seen as a barrier to developing modern cognitive skills. [/quote]

Kids coming here for college from other countries are much better prepared than kids from US schools. 
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Americans are strange.

I don't understand the obsession with sports, particularly youth sports.  But that's fine, I see how it teaches kids how to work hard for a goal, teaches them the benefits of hard work, and it provides more immediate feedback than other things.

But they don't seem to think that the principles of challenging environments and hard work apply to academics.  As if god assigned everyone an academic index at birth and working to exceed that index is a form of cheating.

I understand the maternal instinct to shield your young children from competition, but even at young ages, shouldn't they be challenged academically?  But in middle class families with fathers living in the home, why isn't there still so much reluctance to make your kids compete academically?  Is it because the paternal instinct has been diverted to sports?  Is it because you cannot participate in their academic successes as directly as you can their academic successes?[/quote]

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