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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You also discount the effect of child burnout. Many students who are pushed by their parents at a young age develop depression, anxiety, and stress. I cannot imagine that a child that is prepped and driven by their parents wouldn't feel pressure to perform. I don't want that type of life for my 8 year old. [/quote]

All of those burned out students hanging around outside the Kumon center in Vienna. We won't even go to the yogurt or cupcake stores next door anymore.  It is just too scary and sad to see all of those traumatized kids with their thousand yard stares and with their tiger mom mothers trailing behind them waving Kumon test packets at them while babbling in strange foreign languages. A lot of the kids will probably end up in prison or worse after they grow up. Surely they wont be going to any good schools or even getting any jobs in STEM fields.  If only their parents would stop the cheating and scamming...
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"...while babbling in strange foreign languages"...wow.  WTH?[/quote]

Its parody.   WTF with you?[/quote]

It may be a parody, but there is some truth to the sentiment that children that are pressed to much by their parents tend to crack.  Going to Kumon twice a week is not what people are referencing.  It is the parents that make young children do two hours a night of homework - think more like the Amy Chua (sp ?) book.  If gaining acceptance and continuing to perform well required that type of work, then I think it is too much pressure for an elmentary aged kid.[/quote]

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