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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Longfellow has resources to hire private companies making kits for Science Olympiad to coach their team. They spent thousands of dollars on one event and they came first in that. Is this cheating?[/quote]

Yeah, Longfellow has an overly competitive set of parents. Students do 50% of work and parents do the other 50%. Add to it the sheer amount of money they throw at the program, it is clear why they win.

It is as close to cheating as possible without being illegal. Why do you think they always win? It cannot be that just Longfellow kids are good each and every year for the past 10 years if not more.

The whole Haycock, Longfellow, McLean attracts similar set of parents. They spend their children's childhood focused on winning these awards.

This unfortunately turns out to be loner kids. Nice, intelligent, bright and smart kids. But unfortunately not well adjusted and have tough time later on in life.

I for one, do not envy them. We looked deeply into this and chose to avoid this pyramid. Depends on what you value. No right answer.[/quote]

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