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While math is easy to get ahead in, and currently cool and STEM-y, it's the same deal in other "hard" academic subjects. Or non-"hard" subjects - try getting c
by bell-cot 2y ago
While math is easy to get ahead in, and currently cool and STEM-y, it's the same deal in other "hard" academic subjects. Or non-"hard" subjects - try getting college-level support in accounting, history, languages, literature, music, sculpture, etc. for your junior high school kid from the public school system.
From my PoV, the biggest problem here is attitudes & expectations. If 8th-grader Alize is college-level fluent in her second language (French), and already doing the accounting for her dad's chain of restaurants, then nobody expects the school system to be involved with those. It's all on her French-speaking relatives, and her dad's CPA. And that's perfectly reasonable. If Alize wants more, her family can consider student exchange programs in France, or talk to colleges.