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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those to do academic enrichment because of the lack of public school rigor, how many hours a week do your children spend on it? I’m interested in providing my kids a well balanced education: academics, arts and athletics and some free time as well in their day.

I don’t want them to have to sacrifice everything else in my children’s childhoods for the sake of academic supplementation, just because public school isn’t providing the education that it should. [/quote]

NP you have hit the nail on the head for why we send our above-average-but-not-gifted children to private school. I like keeping afternoons and weekends for physical and outdoorsy activities, or for meetups with family and friends. Can’t imagine condemning them to a Saturday morning math class! (If they were super into math it would be different, but they like academics a normal amount)[/quote]

My kids went through public and we do zero academic enrichment and they are still "advanced."  Their only formal enrichment is art and music lessons and our weekends are about fun.  I think some kids who do math are because parents are type A and they want their kids to have a competitive edge or because the kids are super into math.  There are some public and private schools where math instruction is weak and so parents might feel obligated to backfill it, but a basic good public or private is good enough instruction for most average and above average kids.[/quote]

In MCPS, everyone is supposedly “advanced.” All MSers tske “advanced” English. 9th and 10th graders all take “honors” English. That doesn’t make the classes advanced/honors level, and it certainly doesn’t mean that the kids taking those classes are advanced.[/quote]

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