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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Helicoptering

Irrational Upper Middle Class fear that their kids won't get into a good enough college

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This is not it. Some folks have kids that are bored. My youngest kid just does whats assigned and that's it. That's his personality type, he does a good job but then he needs some downtime. He doesn't want any extra work, he doesn't want to learn another language, he just wants to finish his math homework and go ride his bike around the block. My oldest is very different. When he was younger, I would constantly hear how bored he was. Everything was boring. So we introduced supplementing. He would easily go through a book a week in K, so I'd assign him a book report (just a few sentences and a picture). He wanted to learn Spanish. He wanted to do piano. And then he wanted to do guitar. He took apart a computer and then wanted to learn coding in 4th grade. His schedule is busy and he loves it, he gets up at 6am and he's ready to get the day started. Some kids thrive on always being on the go, they thrive on being challenged, that's their personality type. As long as parents aren't forcing their kids to do things and the kids are happy and engaged, why not add to the watered down curriculum of public schools?[/quote]

because they get ahead of the class and are a headache for teachers

let your kid play more this is elementary school for goodness sakes

math acceleration is pointless[/quote]

Honestly they need to start holding kids back. Right now they teach to the slowest learners because everything needs to be equal but what they really need to do is move at a regular pace and anyone who can't keep up needs to be held up and allow the parents to figure out tutoring. [/quote]

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