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[quote=Anonymous]Easy answer re the second sentence.  When I was a kid, I wished school was more challenging and that there were more kids like me around to talk to.  So I looked for that for my kid.  Sometimes when you give kids the things you didn't have, they lose some of the things you *did* have (and took for granted or didn't realize were the flip side of something you lacked).

That said, it doesn't seem inevitable to me that challenging school + intellectually playful classmates = insane amounts of homework.  Which is why it's worth pushing these schools to rethink what they're doing.

FWIW, I never looked at school as something you had to do sufficiently well at to yield economic success (and as unimportant beyond that).  I thought of it as a playground where you discover a wealth of interesting things.  And learn enough (including how to learn more and where the good books are hidden) to keep you engaged for the rest of your life.  So for me, challenges are fun and something you seek out rather than avoid.  Then again, I got to choose my own challenges.

RE too late to change by HS.  Not a matter of indoctrination or leading by example or values or goals.  Just a case of the kid loving her school and her friends and not wanting to leave over homework.  We're on the same page re what a good life looks like.  Only real difference of opinion is re sleep -- I'm for it, she's against.  Typical teen (and/or takes after her father). [/quote]

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