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Those kids are really bright to begin with and the intensive enrichment culture makes them even more competitive.

Lots of parents with advanced degrees in the BCC/Whitman area too but the parents are more secretive so there's less outward pressure to enrich. Make no mistake most parents are doing it at home but guessing the number of hours they spend is much smaller than the Cold Spring area parents.

Many of the Asian American parents there are immigrants, and used to the prep culture. There's zero shame in it, and actually, it's expected. Whereas in the American culture, you only got outside tutors if you were behind, so there is usually a stigma attached to it.

And it's not just around here. The prep culture among the Asian immigrants is everywhere in the US. My friend out in CA told me the same thing.

I'm not judging it, just trying to explain why so many do it.

We are Asian American, not recent immigrants.

Yes, I think this is right. Also different cultural attitudes toward growth versus fixed mindset. Still controversial of course, but I read Asians have long believed in a growth mindset, that hard work and persistence are instrumental to intellectual and academic growth (versus fixed IQs). I will say this about the Cold Spring kids, who are mostly Asian: they have tremendous work ethics!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1
Those kids are really bright to begin with and the intensive enrichment culture makes them even more competitive.

Lots of parents with advanced degrees in the BCC/Whitman area too but the parents are more secretive so there's less outward pressure to enrich. Make no mistake most parents are doing it at home but guessing the number of hours they spend is much smaller than the Cold Spring area parents.

Many of the Asian American parents there are immigrants, and used to the prep culture. There's zero shame in it, and actually, it's expected. Whereas in the American culture, you only got outside tutors if you were behind, so there is usually a stigma attached to it.

And it's not just around here. The prep culture among the Asian immigrants is everywhere in the US. My friend out in CA told me the same thing.

I'm not judging it, just trying to explain why so many do it.

We are Asian American, not recent immigrants.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1
Those kids are really bright to begin with and the intensive enrichment culture makes them even more competitive.

Lots of parents with advanced degrees in the BCC/Whitman area too but the parents are more secretive so there's less outward pressure to enrich. Make no mistake most parents are doing it at home but guessing the number of hours they spend is much smaller than the Cold Spring area parents.

Many of the Asian American parents there are immigrants, and used to the prep culture. There's zero shame in it, and actually, it's expected. Whereas in the American culture, you only got outside tutors if you were behind, so there is usually a stigma attached to it.

And it's not just around here. The prep culture among the Asian immigrants is everywhere in the US. My friend out in CA told me the same thing.

I'm not judging it, just trying to explain why so many do it.

We are Asian American, not recent immigrants.

Anonymous wrote:+1
Those kids are really bright to begin with and the intensive enrichment culture makes them even more competitive.

Lots of parents with advanced degrees in the BCC/Whitman area too but the parents are more secretive so there's less outward pressure to enrich. Make no mistake most parents are doing it at home but guessing the number of hours they spend is much smaller than the Cold Spring area parents.

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The 99.99999 is about the MAP scores. Its pretty easy to score at 99% in MAP because the % is nation wide. One kid might be 99% at 205 and another kid might be 99% at 260. The kid with 260 clearly is more advanced.


Perhaps, it is but one thing we know for certain is MCPS MAP scores are not that different than the national scores because they actually publish this.

People on DCUM like to believe that MCPS kids are lighteyars ahead but they really aen't.

MCPS as a whole is not that different from the national norm but the highest performers are not equally spread out across the county. Cold Spring and its feeder schools have a disproportionate amount of high performers, You're basically an outlier on the low end of the spectrum there with a 98% and will be receiving intensive catch up services. I'm joking about the last part ..but not that much. It is unbelievable how many K show up reading years above grade level and having math skills equal to 3rd grade level. Many kids are bilingual with correct grammar in both languages. Kids of immigrants go to full day Saturday school in their home language. These schools teach math, language, writing and some science without diluting them so the kids who are already very smart also get a supplemental classroom education.

It's possible there's some truth to this but it just isn't all that special. Sure, it's likely something like 1.5 out of 100 kids in that catchment score 99%+ and other places it's closer to 1.2 out of 100. Overall, I'd suspect the kids or similar to their counterparts elsewhere in the county but simply receive more outside enrichment. There's a reason Dr. Li does drop off and pick up at this school. There's nothing wrong with that; however, don't confuse diligence with intelligence.