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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, education has become like a lottery and a game. Hopefully this documentary (and others like it) along with countless articles on the matter will help parents realize that it just isn't worth it

If your child is gifted and thrives academically, great! But if your child can only perform academically by spending countless hours in tutoring, staying up until 2 am completing homework, and living under constant stress, what's the point? Is an Ivy acceptance email really worth your child losing his one and only childhood over?

I just rewatched Idris' college decision day and realized this obviously (below?) average kid applied to Brown and Berkeley in addition to Wake Forest and Stanford. (Harvard and Yale were probably in there somewhere too.) The kid obviously felt badly but for the dad to berate him as lazy and say that HE was "angry" and "pained"???? [b]Did the Brewsters not realize these were REACH schools for Idris?[/b]

I'm shocked it never occurred to them that maybe Idris felt badly too and that kicking him while he was down was not a good idea.

But, the reaction was telling. It was all about THEM all along. Forget Idris and his struggles.[/quote]

Maybe Dalton politely told them. And they ignored it because they usually think the school tells them things because Idris is an AA boy, not because they are trying to help or be real.[/quote]

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