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A child is learning enough when they are consistently stretched just a little bit outside their comfort zone: not too much to get discouraged, not too little to get bored. [/quote]
School used to provide this for students, really! Even here in the US of A! Are schools really that bad now? Or are the students just so exceptional now?[/quote]

I think we've just learned a lot about education and how children learn in the last few decades. It's not that children are "so exceptional now"  it's that I think more of us parents have realized that children have much more capacity for learning than the US educational system has required of them.

So yes, they can do more advanced math and reading and science than is required, and yes, some parents have realized that, and are taking advantage of new opportunities outside school like Art of Problem Solving, this Russian School of Math thing, etc. Many of these programs are frankly also quite engaging and fun... I love learning and I would have absolutely loved to have some of these apps and programs growing up...

I hear you that some parents are nutso over-scheduling their kids and being hypercompetitive, etc. I'm just pointing out that there can be true value in it as well, without it being an obnoxious narcissistic thing... (And by the way, I don't necessarily think private schools are that much better at meeting kids' potential either... ) [/quote]

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