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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their parents can't stand the thought of seeing them fail, especially when they are paying all this money?[/quote]

You certainly read a lot into a parent's choice about where to send her kid to school.  That was perhaps the farthest thing from my mind when we chose a school.  My parents very intentionally sent me to a low rigor school, because they believed I would have decades upon decades to learn and work in high rigor environments, and they wanted me to have time to become grounded in a more relaxed space.  I switched to a very high rigor school for high school, and within months caught up with the kids who had been doing large quantities of homework for years.  I'm glad I got to spend much more time riding my bike, playing in he woods with friends, and playing with my cat.  For me, that was much more important.  I eventually wen to both college and law school at ivy league schools, and have never suffered any ill consequences from having missed out on 4th grade homework![/quote]

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