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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not in NOVA but in an area that's described similarly. I had no idea, but it's turns out that a significant portion of parents have been supplementing heavily outside of school as early as kindergarten. The slower parents began supplementing midway through elementary. Very few kids are just ending up in top level math or English because school doesn't even teach grade level material anymore. School is for working on the bottom half to reach passing levels, and most of the effort goes to the bottom 10%, who are allowed to disrupt and drag down the entire class. I didn't realize I was "supposed to" put my 8 year old in 3 hours of tutoring every single week and have her work on math workbooks every night.

Anyway, that is how things become cutthroat by middle school.[/quote]

I refused to have my kid "waste" most of the day at school and then have to give up play/extracurriculars so that I could supplement what they should have already learned.

We did not have enough $ for private so we homeschooled until high school.

Child was a bit bored in high school academically, but had a great group of friends. College is finally the best of both worlds.[/quote]

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