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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to South Korea.  Face it.  This is what is happening when we are influenced by Asian culture.  Our public school 'magnet' programs are becoming places that fit the 'winner take all' society and American culture is being influenced by this 'cram' school mentality. Go to public school for social reasons -- and cram school to get ahead. Remember in Asian culture they do not value 'native' intelligence as much as hard work.  As a fifth generation American we could borrow some of their philosophy -- I think we've become too soft on our kids and they are in for a shock when they realize they have to compete in a smaller and smaller global marketplace. Great article from Harvard Education on the subject.  'The Other Achievement Gap: The lessons we can learn from Asian American success." https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/04/other-achievement-gap[/quote]

As an Asian, I am getting used to the blame on us as above. My son is in AAP IV, 3rd grade. We moved from MA due to dad's job relocation when DS  was in 2 grade. We didn't send him to any test preparation to get into AAP IV.  Currently, he is not taking any classes out of school except drawing and tennis. The fact is, he is struggling in advanced math.  I let him do Beestar to improve problem solving skills. that's it. I learned from several other parents in his class that their kids go to Kumon and Russian math school. I believe that some Asian kids are doing the same. But the parents who told me these resources their AAP kids use are not Asian.  But I do observed an interest thing, they are all immigrants. I learned recently that there are Russian School, Netherland school....... where people send kids to learn math, reading and writing after school or in the weekends.

Instead of blaming the immigrant parents including Asian, Russian,etc, maybe we can put the public school education quality under scrutiny. There are many threads on this and other forum complaining that public schools are not teaching spelling. The reading class at many school in FCPS is a joke. No textbook, it has pros and cons, which made teaching and learning highly depend on teachers' capability. Math education in public schools has been a big problem for a long time.  People born and grown-up in US may feel everything is good, but immigrant parents experienced different education systems may think:"This is not the effective way teaching math. No, what the school teaches is far from enough." I once discussed with my supervisor and senior colleagues about this, they told me that the school education they had when they were children was difference. It seems that public school system once provide a better, more rigor education but now it's failing.

I want my son to have a happy childhood. But I am also  started to consider reading and math extracurricular classes now.

The only way to make students stop taking extracurricular course is to implement enough academic rigor in public school, hold high standard for both teachers and students.

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