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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by cosmodisk on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:28AM (#23539504)
What you mention here is more of a cultural thing.In some, there's emphasis,if not obsession, to make sure the kids do learn so they could go to college/university/whatever. This is also pushed quite heavily at family level too. This may not be the same in other groups.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by C1sc0cat on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:35AM (#23539585)
Its also pushing kids into career directions that they may not really want to do and in some cases are not just suited to.

The only time I have seen some one who was just not suited to development was case of this.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by cosmodisk on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:00AM (#23539908)
I have a cousin, who's both parents are heavily into medicine and wanted for him the same path,while he only wanted to do anything related to cars. Didn't work out well tbh. Pushing your own kids to learn isn't necessarily a bad thing,but to do so purely with a single goal of getting them into a university and then in a predefined job path, is outright crazy.
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