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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since when are grades, test scores and academic rigor considered "padding" on a resume?
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Since admissions committees realized these things are only a meaningless reflection of White Privilege.[/quote]

yep!  But worse, these aren't engaged interested kids.  I don't teach at an elite college but I will tell you my honor students are the absolute worse for valuing what teachers value (intellectual curiosity, the life of the mind, knowledge for knowledge's sake).  They will work their butts off for an A, but for no purpose but the A and the next hoop.  It is sad. Schools are trying to figure out a way not to enroll these kids (though they themselves have created these kids with their admission criteria).  But don't worry, they have no way yet.  They may take a deeper look at kids from Waldorf schools or homeschool kids is my guess.[/quote]

At least these kids are working hard enough to get A's. You live in a fantasy world if you think that lower achieving students are more likely to be intellectually curious.

What I have found is that naturally bright kids are bored to death in today's academic environment because our teachers are not from the top of the academic distribution. If you are in the top 10% of your class, you are way smarter than your teacher, and their idea of "intellectual curiosity" is your idea of boredom. You have teachers who think asking questions equates to intellectual curiosity, but the bright kids aren't engaged because the class is too easy and there is no point in asking questions. [/quote]

And the teascher doesn't call on the bright students to answer because she wants to "give other kids a chance." Meaning my kid is left to doodle and daydream, but God forbid the teacher catch him because then she will embarass & rebuke him for not paying attention.[/quote]

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