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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None.  DS is entering 6th.  This thread has been a real eye-opener.

Where do you all live?  How would you describe your culture/ethnicity/race/country of origin?

Nobody I know in my neighborhood does this, [b]nor do DS's classmates at his independent school in DC.[/b][/quote]

Have you asked every single one of them? I highly doubt it. Unless it's a school that only goes up to 2nd grade or something.

We live in Bethesda. The clueless middle-class American parents who think time stands still and life will treat their children exactly the way it treated them, are of the opinion that childhood should be as fun and work-free as possible. After all, they'll be able to get into an Ivy just as easily as their parents did (I actually know parents like this). And then the recent educated immigrants and foreigners, as well as more far-seeing Americans, see the changing world and hard-core global competition and expect their kids to be at least two grades ahead in everything, and to develop their critical thinking skills. This usually means some measure of academic study during the holidays and enrichment all year. They strive to make it interesting and stimulating. Academics don't have to be drudgery.

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Then their kids kill themselves in high school or college because of the pressure.  No thanks.  My kids (13 and 10) learn during the summer, but it's largely experiential, combined with some pleasure reading.  I don't care if my kids go to Ivy league schools.  I know plenty of Ivy league graduates so i guess I don't think it's all that.  I'd rather raise happy, well-adjusted adults (even if they do go to "lesser" colleges).  I've officially opted out of the academic arms race.  One of my kids is very bright and will probably do well regardless.  The other has an LD, so pushing her is not going to make her learn any faster--it will probably turn her off.[/quote]

+1  My rising 5th and 7th graders do the summer math review packets their schools provide (1 sheet of about 8 questions each week) and I expect them to read each day (have to push DS to do that but DD does it naturally).  Other than that, they are in camp all day doing a wide variety of activities - some old favorite, some exposure to new things.  Both are doing very well in school.[/quote]

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