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No one is saying don't get a tutor for a struggling child.  What is bewildering is for those kids in ES that clearly are bright to begin with, why get a tutor?  They are just in ES. Aren't you concerned with burnout for such a young kid?  I feel like an ES kid should have a chance to be a kid.  Schools are more competitive now so I know my kid will face the stress eventually. Why bring it on so early needlessly if your kid is already bright, IMO.

And those in low SES can and do take their kids to the library.  You are confusing parents who don't value education vs parents who don't have money.  It's more of a cultural thing, rather than an income thing.[/quote]

[b]Where are all these ES kids with tutors[/b]?  My kids have been through ES immersion (one of them) and an ES magnet (the other one). We didn't see any of this tutoring in these public ESs that tend to attract the most competitive parents. We did see a lot of NIH parents doing their kids' science projects for them, but that's a very different problem.  Both of my kids also spent some time in private school (1 and 3 years, private was a mistake) and we didn't see any tutoring there, either. [/quote]

I don't know if any parent would publicize it, but clearly, they exist, just read the posts.  I have heard from a friend who lives in the Churchill cluster that there are several ES kids in this cluster that have tutors. These are already very bright kids, not struggling ones.  And yes, they are typically Asian.  Don't go all nuts on me people for stating this. I am Asian, but I don't have a tutor for my HGC kid. If DC needed one to get into HGC, then to me, DC doesn't belong there, and I'm ok with it.  It's ES, not HS or college.  There are several kids that don't go to HGC and get into Magnet or IB later on.  Things that happen in ES don't set your kids' lives in stone for the future. [/quote]

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