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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  I’m especially dismayed at the trend of 9th and 10th graders loading themselves with AP courses.  I took 5 AP classes in high school.  Only 1 felt like a true college level course as far as requiring and developing critical thinking.  The rest were more about volume, not quality of the assignments.  I repeated a couple of them my freshman year in college and the APs paled in comparison.  [/quote]

We are pressuring our kids too much. ES is the new middle school, middle school is now high school and high school is now college all because we are so afraid of our kids being left behind. The irony is that we aren't teaching them more or better. We're trying to put 10 pounds of flour in a 5 pound sack. Sure there are kids who are outliers who might need things at a higher level but most kids are normal. Kids aren't smarter today than we were, they are just driven harder. People confuse the possession of information with intelligence. We are not teaching them to think critically, we are not teaching them how to apply knowledge, we are simply jamming information down their throats. We're funneling them all to STEM even if that isn't their aptitude, like steerage passengers on the Titanic looking for a life boat, as if a STEM degree will make them safe. It won't. If they aren't passionate or good at STEM you will simply end up with someone who sucks at STEM much like all the computer programmers in the 90s. Follow your children's lead. Try to ensure that they can find joy in learning. Look for opportunities for them to deepen their understanding and apply their knowledge. There is no golden ticket. [/quote]

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