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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't the kids/parents just try harder. Many of the Asian American students who make it to magnets are from lower income families. Not all Asian Americans are wealthy, nor are their parents educated.  [b]Some of these parents will borrow money to send their kids to after school tutoring[/b].[/quote]

Why do these children need 'after school tutoring' to begin with? To cheat the system?

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You are part of the problem as is anyone who sees studying more and working harder as "cheating the system"[/quote]

The magnets are now for the hardest working?  ok, settled.

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Hardest working and smartest.  Is that okay now?  No one acquires knowledge by sitting on their ass, just like you don't make a basketball player or great musician by not practicing extra.  [/quote]
I would add that a child who is not willing to work hard is not going to do well in the middle school or especially in the high school magnets.  This is why the selection process has included teacher recs and personal essays.  You have to be smart and motivated and have a decent work ethic to be successful.  Can you get through the program without the latter two characteristics?  Yes but it would be super stressful and your grades would suck because magnet teachers don't think twice about giving students Cs, Ds etc when they don't do well.  The expectations are high especially in the high school magnets.
Can you get through high school physics and chemistry in one semester in 9th grade or through the entire AP Stats curriculum in one semester (this is at Blair SMAC) without doing a decent number of worksheets and reading?  Maybe but you are probably not going to learn as much (or do as well).  I am sure there are a handful of students who are so, so amazingly smart they just understand and remember everything without having to work but these students are the minority.  [/quote]

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