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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious, people on here claiming to be children of immigrants. Were you tutored as a child or attend prep courses? What type of schools did you attend as a child? Were the schools you attended deemed inadequate? For example, have Koreans always forced their kids to learn excessively? Is this a cultural thing? Americans, in general haven’t needed to do this, maybe we are all a bunch ignorant slackers? Should we all be studying and prepping for the majority of the day?[/quote]
I emigrated from the former Soviet Union and my parents and grandparents were extremely unimpressed by the math curriculum at my very good public school. This was before Russian School of Math existed, but my grandmother was a retired math teacher and she spent some time teaching me more advanced material when I was in elementary school and junior high.

My grandmother and my parents were not as strict as most of my Russian-speakong friends' parents, and I was a lazy kid, so I did not wind up spending much time being tutored. But my grandmother also had other Russian-speaking tutees who put in much more time and took it much more seriously.[/quote]
Thank you. I am just curious how parents handle the logistics of all of this extra tutoring and school work. My children already spend about 7 hrs in school per day, come home at about 3:30, eat dinner for about a half hour to an hour, maybe attend a sports practice sometimes until 6:30-7:00, but my kids don’t play many sports so usually they begin homework at about 6:30 until 7:30 while I clean up the dinner dishes and kitchen. Then bath and read and bed by 8:30. My kids are young and I cannot imagine cramming anything else into this schedule. [/quote]

Most kids are not playing travel sports and the number of kids who play rec level sports decreases each year.  I would guess that it is a pretty small percentage of kids playing a rec sport by Middle School.

Right now, DS has Scouts one day a week and a sport 2 days a week. He has a game on Saturday and does RSM on Sunday. When school starts he will be allowed to choose the after school extras he wants, they run for an hour after school which leaves time to come home and eat a snack before practice if he has practice.  We do dinner after practices because of the time. We have dinner before Scouts and games because they are a bit later. If he chooses an after school activity it replaces playing with friends at the park or some video game time at home.

Rec sports and Scouts are great for activity and socialization. The after school activities are good for socialization and fun learning. [/quote]

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