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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate how cynical people are here. A lot of kids out there are gifted and capable of a lot[/quote]

It’s a not enough time issue.

Our school starts at 8 and has mandatory athletics until 6. Plus HW and other extracurriculars….there’s not time to do significant lab research during the school year.

My son has a kid who’s making “biological breakthroughs” in his class. The kid is basically never in a lab working on projects…the lab he supposedly works in is run by his mom. Hmmm.

Just like the two kids I know who “started and run charities,” but it’s their mom doing all the work. [/quote]

Well, maybe you didn't realize that not every high school is like your high school.  Our high school does not have mandatory Athletics until 6:00.  In addition, the kids that do the science research program, do their most significant project during the summer between junior year and Senior year.  That is after freshman, sophomore and Junior year of working up to that project.

There are thousands of different high schools out here and they offer all kinds of different things.  Some have science research programs.[/quote]

You seriously think that most  14/15/16 year olds can do research over the summer and come up with or finish such projects? These kids don’t even know enough about the subject or the research process or what is involved to conduct the research. These are fake projects , created by parents or others and the kids are getting to add their names to it.. if there were 2-3 kids conducting such research it would be maybe believable but now that every other kid is either writing a book or publishing papers and doing research it all seems bogus and bulls…[/quote]

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