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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are almost 6,000 posts on this board. Most are about how to get your kid into AAP, or TJ, the rest are about AoPS tracks and math competitions or the best way to teach your fourth grader algebra. My question is: to what end? Is it about job security? Or do you want your children to found the next FAANG and secure generational wealth? Is it about the cache of having a child in AAP/TJ/HYP? Because everyone else is doing it? Just curious. [/quote]

With all due respect.. This IS the AAP forum.  What else did you expect people to discuss here?

Second question for you.. Do you ask the same question of sports strivers?  Little league, Travel teams, Division 1 dreams, etc. where the majority of the kids play a sport one of their parents did when they were younger and spend way more time that the AAP/TJ crowd does, all in the hopes that they get into college through the sports route while pretending they are doing it to develop 'team skills'? Or do you consider that "healthy" and not striving at all?[/quote]

If the talent is hereditary, that is one thing - but using your kid as striver pawn, so they can take care of you in your old age - that is quite another. [/quote]

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