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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So your logic (or illogic as the case may be) to avert this problem (of being too advanced) is to slow a precocious child down?

Have you ever heard of this strategy for music (e.g., piano and violin) , art, language, sports development?

Would anyone (parent, teacher or administrator) with a teaspoon of brains slow a 4-year-old down from a voracious appetite of reading multiple chapter books and novels for fear this 4-year-old is too advanced for chronologic and peer group age in school (now or later)?

Why on earth would anyone put the breaks on a budding mathematician (or artist or musician)? [/quote]

Its not a race. Thats why.

Who said anything about "racing"?  I guess by that stroke of logic superbly and profoundly performing pianists, violinists, readers and swimmers are racing ... just like mathematicians ?  Does your "race" have an end or time limit?  Does knowledge and creativity have a finite end?

Can you explain your logic regarding 4-year-old kids who may perform at much higher and deeper levels (piano, violin, math, swimming, reader) than their mates?  What are the intellectual and creative "no fly-zones" for a 4-year-old (perhaps ... no more than 5 chapter books or 600 pages of reading per week)?  Of course, reading speed is immaterially in your worldview?

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You were the one who used words like "slowing down" and "putting the brakes on".  I was just extending the analogy.  I have trouble understanding how drilling a 4 year old with math facts (which is what they do at Kumon, BTW.  This is not about teaching your child to think about math theory and abstractions, its about teaching them the multiplication tables before kindergarten) equals putting the brakes on.  And I don't get your hostility and defensiveness.  But, hey, have fun with all that Kumon stuff.  Sounds like a blast.[/quote]

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