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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my son started K at a DC private school, 1/2 of the boys in his class had been held back by their super-competitive parents with Ivy League dreams. With his late May birthday, my son turned out to be the youngest boy in his class. On top of private tuition, we paid extra for tutoring and OT (for handwriting) for 7 years. Many boys in the grade below him were only one month younger than he was. When he took the SSATs for high school, his scores were mediocre, maybe because he was competing with boys who were so much older. It's a crazy system but it's reality in pressure cooker cities like DC & NYC.[/quote] My gosh. I am so sorry that it turned out that your son, as opposed to someone else's son, was near the youngest in his grade. That's terrible. How could those other, overly-competitive parents do that to your poor son? Making him the youngest?[/quote]
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