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Sometimes parents who opted out of the magnets use "pressure cooker" as a polite excuse rather than being candid and saying "my kid isn't a socially awkward bookworm and we want him/her to have a more athletic/hipper peer group."[/quote]

And sometimes magnet parents use "needs more challenge" as a polite excuse rather than being candid and saying "my kid isn't a shallow petty bully who lives for social climbing in cliques and drinks and smokes weed in middle school just to be popular".

I'm glad my kids escaped that scene.  My kids are glad too.

BTW, you know that you are speaking largely out of stereotype about bookworms, right?  The magnet is full of highly motivated kids who in addition to being driven scholars are also driven soccer players, swimmers, etc.  Football, of course, is not popular because these kids and parents like to protect their brains and the evidence is clear about the serious long term brain damage that football causes......[/quote]

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