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[quote=Anonymous]I almost posted this on the thread about hiring H1-Bs as teachers thread (http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/638317.page)  but never got a chance to.

But it's kind of funny how some people complain about the education system and try to suggest things like importing teachers to try to improve it.

If anything that Washington Post article linked in that thread shows that the biggest factor in a student's success is what goes on at home.

On the other hand you have these posters talking about their children's happiness and how the driven students are also depressed.  And knocking on the students who do those extracurricular activities at a young age.  Just the other day someone mentioned how in some college com sci programs the students were programming long before they got into college.

Then there are some theories floating around on how a student's math track is determined in the third grade.  I'm not a big fan of it but in MCPS's previous seven keys to college readiness (not sure if they're pushing for it), one of the factors is to be in 6th grade math by grade 5:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2009/2009collegereadiness_03-19.pdf

So it really does start early and influenced on what goes on at home.

As previous poster mentioned, there is a big gap between those driven students with 10 APs and the lower performing students.  And the kids that fall in between probably will do well too.  But there's no reason to attack people who try to enrich their kids at an early age or the ones who don't want their kids to just focus on books.[/quote]

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