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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]These responses seem soooo odd. My daughter had to do an assignment about college admissions when she was in 4th grade. The teachers just had all the kids research a college they would like to go to and write a paragraph in it. You can’t not talk about it! 
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I talk to my kids all the time about colleges, but not in the sense that I’m pushing them to get into a good school. I talk about the value of a degree (which is a pretty complex topic), the cost benefit analysis of various schools, the student loan debt crisis, inequities in admissions, the misplaced emphasis on selectivity, the emotional toll of pushing kids into good schools, etc. We also watched that documentary about the college admissions scandal that Felicity Huffman and others were involved in.

I can’t imagine an academic environment where middle schoolers don’t have college in the back of their minds most of the time. I don’t think that interferes with childhood any more that rigorous writing instruction does.

OP have you read the book “The Self-Driven Child?” It’s so good, and I think you’ll find a lot of value in it. [/quote]

x1000  OP, did either you or your spouse go to college?  If you did, then was that here in the US or in your country of birth?[/quote]

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