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I don't understand.  Kids that prep like mad for the SAT entrance exams and even jack their scores up 200 points  and get into Harvard will end up at this school and not be able to keep up with classmates?  Kids who prep for their magnet entrance exams, Catholic school exams, SSAT with outstanding results will have artificial  (unnatural and performance-enhanced) scores and will be doomed when they attend their favorite Big 3 school?  Kids who play with puzzles, analogy word games, number sense, puzzles and raven-like exercises will fall on their faces in your fine private schools loaded with the brightest of the intelligensia due to artificial and performance-enhanced scores?  Many performance-enhanced Asian Americans and other immigrants are stilling kicking much butt in our fancy private schools.  On the contrary, I don't see these kids failing to keep.  It is your kids that can't keep up. the ones with natural intelligence and no performance.  Those are my observations.

I will not even comment on your NFL analogy and spare you.
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I agree.  A few threads back I tried to point out that there is a big difference between the fallout from faking your way on to the football team, and faking your way into a Big 3.  With the football team, you sit on the bench until you and your parents realize that you lack the aggression, football skills or size, and then you go off to try another sport like chess.  With the Big 3, you are counseled out, with all the potentially devastating consequences to your self-image.

However, the PP who says that "drill and kill" doesn't work for this OP is right.  Lots of people have made lots of different points to her, and she never, ever understands.[/quote]

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