Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry

Re:Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry by ticmasta on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:37PM (#18877257)

To mitigate this (though not sure it's the right mitigation), if your kid doesn't specialize incredibly early and show promise they'll be kicked out of the performance stream into the recreational stream.

Example: sports start splitting kids at ages 5 and 6. They call it "assessment" but it's really try-outs for the competitive teams. From this point on the majority of effort and resources go to the predictable audience. Better hope your preschooler is coordinated for their age. Growing a foot in middle school will no longer get you on the basketball team as everyone else has 10 years of club ball.

Arts and academics is no different. Our local gifted school screens per-kindergarten and you won't even be considered without a private (read: $$$) assessment as part of your application.

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Re:Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry by Loughla on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:44PM (#18877322)

That's the system here, and it seems to favor only individuals who are either purposefully held back a year (in the case of athletics) or whose parents have wealth and connections (in the case of athletics and the arts).

Not sure it's a great system, is what I'm saying.

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