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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's easy to blame the parents but the schools where the student is for many hours a day, push push push the students, mainly for the teachers and especially the coaches jobs and egos.  [/quote]

Huh. I wonder why on earth that could be?
Why would teachers be pushing their students for better performance? Gosh, I never come on here and read post after post of which schools are acceptable. What exactly makes a school acceptable? Oh that's right! Test scores. Teachers are pushed to deliver, by administrators, pushed by parents.

It's the community and it starts in the home. 
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It doesn't matter how laid back you are at home.  When you are in high school, even if you are looking only at state schools, grades matter.  So when teachers dump too much homework on kids, it's going to impact even those who aren't from academically obsessed families.  Add bullying that the school refuses to address, and that can create major stress for kids.  Just because some parents demand crazy standards of the schools, doesn't mean they have to drag us all along with them with excessive homework and projects.  It's not like they make it optional for those who would prefer less stress.[/quote]

This is true. We are a laid back family. Dh and I graduated from Mason and work typical jobs. I am the first to say "eh...close enough" in most situations, and in our home we don't even care about grades as long as the kids are doing their work and trying, and yet my ds has literal panic attacks about homework and grades and tests and not being able to get into college. This is 100% coming from our schools, and I don't know how to stop the freight train. It would take everyone from preshoool to grad school plus parents working together. [/quote]

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