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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The parents worrying about tutors in MS and HS are the parents that choose not to do enrichment in ES. An understandable choice, I get prioritizing other activities, but the long term effect is that their kids are now effectively behind the percentage that choose enrichment. Now the AP classes are a struggle for some kids because there is another group that has already seen the material.[/quote]

This.

At least at TJ, Langley HS, and McLean HS a plurality of the kids have had outside academic enrichment (or supplement, or pick a word) for years.  The same is true for N. Arlington.  And there are enrichment businesses (which are busy) scattered all around Arlington, Fairfax, and E. Loudoun counties.

In many cases, this has been math enrichment, but various reading/writing/grammar or other enrichment also happens.  Most of the top math students  (county-wide) in the same 3 counties have had external math enrichment (AoPS, Kumon, Mathnasium, or RSM) to help them get to that level.

Kids with top science projects often, not always, have a parent or relative who works in a research lab.[/quote]

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