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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m tired of listening to all these parents talk about their math wiz kids and how they need their kid to be accelerated 3 grades. Good for them - they also can’t string a coherent sentence together without the help of AI and my kid happens to be very creative and artsy (looooves to write).  FWIW I was a B student in math and took 1 math lite class in college so don’t see the need for all this crazy focus on math if it’s not your thing. I found a job and have a career that pays well. Can’t we focus on other things besides math and not punish kids for not being mathaletes ( mine happens to have an IEP for math) which is what this feels like. He could spend all his time on math and still not get more than a C. [b]What happened to being well rounded?[/quote][/b]
Plenty of kids who are good at math are also excellent at writing, creative and athletic. [/quote]

A very few, not plenty.   Our school has a math club with about 30 kids in it, all but two are Asian.   None do school athletics.  I have no idea about creativity but if your kid goes straight to Russian Math after school alternating with math club and chess club there’s just no time.   [/quote]

Racist much?[/quote]

Yup. Racist because I have eyes and can see who’s in the math club?   My daughter went to a summer academic program and it was majority Asian kids.  When my daughter walked into the room the teacher asked her if she was a basketball player.   I’m surprised she didn’t give her directions to the basketball court which also had summer programs.  [/quote]

Racist to assume all these Asian kids are somehow lesser than kids who are sporty, and that they are uncreative. Sure some Asian cultures value math more than sports. Are we going to seriously say the kids who are obsessively into sports (many pushed) and spend all their time doing that are somehow better, more creative, etc? Don't get me started on how many times I have seen sports parents yelling at their kids or other kids during games. [/quote]

Ignorant to pretend Asians aren’t dominating maths and sciences.  I was talking about my experience only.  I have no idea who plays what except my school.  My daughter went to a summer enrichment program that had the arts, academics and sports.  When my daughter walked in to the math class the teacher asked her if she was a basketball player.  I could say it was racist of her to say something like that.   The academics program had only a couple of non Asians and the basketball program had none.

And no, the kids who are obsessive about sports wouldn’t be called creative and certainly wouldn’t be called better .  And sports parents can be obnoxious, no doubt.  [/quote]

Because they play tennis[/quote]

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