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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back in the day, school seemed focused on academics. Now it seems like school is focused on anything except academics.  Parents across the country supplement with their kids outside school - in many or all subjects - not just for math.

I am realizing the main current benefit of elementary school for our DC is just socialization.

What happened? [/quote]

Schools these days appear to be mostly about social sorting and real estate values.  Not really socialization as such, social sorting which high school did you go to which college etc.  The curricula are all pretty much the same, though in many cases they boil it down or kludge it up so that they can justify their sorting.  Look these kids have better test scores and are more college ready but wait you didn't teach them the same things and give them the same opportunities.

Why did the home buyer overpay for their house? So they can be next to all the other math challenged kids that also overpaid for their house and get the extra benefit of crooked test scores, that they need to make the math work out about their home values.[/quote]

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