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Stop with the “it’s only an hour a week”. If it is you aren't the problem. 
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Where are these groups kids who are doing hours of tutoring every night to the point that entire school cultures are changed?  My kids attend a somewhat competitive AAP center with a decently high percentage of Asians in the middle of the county.  I don't think there's a single kid there who is doing cram school.  None of the kids who are taking Algebra in 6th or who are winning the math contests are doing more than taking a 2 hour/week class at RSM or AoPS.  Do you actually know that a bunch of kids at your school are doing cram school and asking for special privileges, or are you assuming that any Asian kid who is decently above grade level must be a prep robot?[/quote]

In the imagination of people in denial about their child being merely average in this region ... [/quote]

In a STEM magnet across the river, the magnet asian kids are on many sports team in school.  Many of the best players  are the magnet Asian kids.   Accusing  academically prepared Asian kids for being robots or damaging school culture is nonsense.   If you want your DC to spend 20 hours on sports or travel team but  ignore academic performance,  it is the route you and your DC take .  [b]Don't blame  others run too fast if you don't want or cannot keep up the speed[/b].   
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But where are kids running to? STEM acceleration is an absolute necessity for brilliant kids who will become Davidson Fellows and win the major science competitions one day. As a high school student, you need to be doing graduate-school level math for some of those contests. If a kid doesn't accelerate, he won't be anywhere near ready to apply. And TJ will always have a few prodigies like that. But for the other 99.9999 percent of kids, radical STEM acceleration isn't a necessity, and it can mean fewer opportunities rather than more. Parents who feel a tremendous sense of pride when their kid is tapped for 6th grade algebra may not comprehend that the "B" from that one class with the disorganized teacher will disqualify that kid from admission to the most elite colleges. They may not know that high schools typically won't allow ninth graders to take high level math, and that online courses or commuting to other schools during the day aren't workable options. And wouldn't you rather your kid learn very advanced math from a full professor at an Ivy League school than from a high school teacher? By all means, let's run fast, but if we're not to break both legs along the way we need to know why we're running at that pace and where we're trying to get to.[/quote]

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