Totally understand your point Grinity, but I was playing Devil's advocate. And those tennis players didn't have to play with me. And you didn't quote my point about the skater.
It is America and if the parent can prep and get that 130 into a group that is more PG, all the power to them. But it is my responsibility, as a parent to make sure my kid gets what she needs. So we take her to Mandarin, she does the piano. I will arrange accelerated math to keep her math skills prime and take her to Liberty science center and the museum of Natural History for special classes.
My kid is lucky in that she has the poster child for the A-type personality and I will bust down any door so that she has options. And we have enough money to pay for the programs, the lessons. But the point was the prepping. If my kid didn't start reading at 2.5 or start telling math calculations at 2 and 3, but heard stories...I bet I would one of those prepping. Glad I didn't have to face that side of me. I prepped for the OLSAT this year. Not hardcore but after last year's dismal result, I wanted to make sure she knew to take her time, look at all the answers before choosing. Not assume, she knew a picture and that was the answer. The reason that High scoring SB kids do so poorly on the OLSAT, they rush, assume because they are not tortoises. Too often they are the hares. And my daughter is ultra hare. That she gets from me. So I can give her much better skills than I ever had.
Ren
