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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a huge double standard between sports and academics.  If you put your kid in one AoPS class (total time commitment of 1.75 hrs + 1 hr homework) per week, people clutch their pearls, act as if you're ruining your kid's childhood, and tell you that you're cheating.  If you have your kid in travel sports, no one criticizes you for it.

Also, even if most of us think that putting your kids in cram school is not great parenting, there are people out there who will do exactly that.  [b]We have to accept that those kids might be more advanced than ours[/b], because we can't control other people.  It is what it is, and whining about it won't change anything.  [/quote]

The thing is, many of those kids are not actually more advanced, they’ve essentially been hothoused to appear to be advanced. Many of the kids who have taken extra math classes ahead of their grade level don’t fundamentally understand the extra math they’ve studied but have simply learned to memorize.

Math teachers at TJ have complained about the number of kids who come in who are “advanced” on paper but don’t have the understanding necessary to do truly advanced math courses. 
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