The fact that Westport has a school that is academically successful is not necessarily a result of the fact that many in Westport are wealthy. Causation and correlation are two very different things.
Everyone is quick to suggest that Westport (and I assume this also applies to NC, Darien, Weston, etc.) can only product lots of high test scores and lots of Ivy admits because everyone can afford to cheat, cut corners, bribe, etc. People seem to think that with 30,000 residents in Westport, every single one of them is a rich, douchy, hedge-fund, helicopter parent. Without any doubt that stereotype is true for a large number of residents of Westport, as well as Wilton, Weston, Darien, NC, Greenwich, etc. However, those towns also have poorer neighborhoods, Section 8 housing, students getting free lunches... and MANY "normal" middle class families who fall somewhere in the middle.
There are plenty of families in those towns who cannot afford tutors, consultants, bribes, etc. Yet somehow their kids still somehow manage to outscore the rest of the state and get into the top schools.
This goes back to simple jealousy. Just because your school is sub-par or your kids will not get into the college you want doesn't mean the kids from Westport all cheat. It just means you moved to the wrong town and your kid spent a bit more time on the soccer field than in the library.
I’m going to have to say negative to that. Lol. Top colleges turn away kids with perfect SAT scores every year. And some kids, no matter how hard they try, are not Ivy League material. It is no different in a classroom than it is on a field. Some kids won’t cut it no matter how hard they try. But by all means, have your kid stress over academics only to not get into the top tier OR second tier school, and be completely ill equipped to handle any social activity. You sound like a jealous dope.
Go ahead and believe whatever nonsense helps you sleep better at night.
The difference between sports and academics is that sports require talent, physical attributes (size, strength, speed, etc.) PLUS hard word. Academics ONLY require hard work. Of course there are the savants who do calculus in 8th grade. However, for the average kid with average IQ, getting a 4.0 and high SATs takes nothing more than effort. Are you telling me that all the Chinese, Indian, Korean kids who get perfect scores are geniuses?
It's you and your kid who think taking an extra math class over the summer is not as fun/cool/helpful as taking a summer soccer clinic. Its you who decides that 8+ hours/week is better spent at soccer practice than at the library. So don't start making BS excuses about how not everyone can go to a top school or how it's not as easy as you would like it to be.
Like everything in life it's about choices. You just keep make bad ones and then try to justify the outcome as being unfair.
Go ahead and believe whatever nonsense helps you sleep better at night.
The difference between sports and academics is that sports require talent, physical attributes (size, strength, speed, etc.) PLUS hard word. Academics ONLY require hard work. Of course there are the savants who do calculus in 8th grade. However, for the average kid with average IQ, getting a 4.0 and high SATs takes nothing more than effort. Are you telling me that all the Chinese, Indian, Korean kids who get perfect scores are geniuses?
It's you and your kid who think taking an extra math class over the summer is not as fun/cool/helpful as taking a summer soccer clinic. Its you who decides that 8+ hours/week is better spent at soccer practice than at the library. So don't start making BS excuses about how not everyone can go to a top school or how it's not as easy as you would like it to be.
Like everything in life it's about choices. You just keep make bad ones and then try to justify the outcome as being unfair.
Admission to top schools isn't always just about top grades and scores. There's tens of thousands of perfect students. To get in you need the hooks, be it sports, a musical talent, you started a (real) non profit etc. It is somewhat related to the suit against Harvard not taking as many Asian students because, smart as they are, they often times only have the academic record and nothing else. All of us know incredibly book-smart people who can't hold a conversation.
speaking of Staples & Politics, I drop my daughter off at their conditioning program this summer and most days the head coach is giving private lessons to the assistant coaches daughter and a chosen few. how is this fair or even acceptable? marty this stinks
The same staples coach seen weekly on the field at ct high school league chatting with more than a dozen of his players and watching them play in the bleachers?
The same staples coach seen weekly on the field at ct high school league chatting with more than a dozen of his players and watching them play in the bleachers?
St joes coach has been getting away with it for years. He gave my daughter feedback after a captains practice from just off the field. This was a couple years ago, but i am sure he is still doing it with new freshmen.
speaking of Staples & Politics, I drop my daughter off at their conditioning program this summer and most days the head coach is giving private lessons to the assistant coaches daughter and a chosen few. how is this fair or even acceptable? marty this stinks
are they paying for the private lessons? if so pay for your kid
why would the assistant coach need the head coach to train his kid? why would he not just do it himself
how old are the girls in question?
St joes coach has been getting away with it for years. He gave my daughter feedback after a captains practice from just off the field. This was a couple years ago, but i am sure he is still doing it with new freshmen.
every coach that gives a Sh*t has been doing it forever-
but most dont care about captains practices other than to see who shows up and what the frosh look like
its more curiosity than anything else- they have other ways of actually seeing productive stuff
its not illegal to talk to your players or even condition the whole team in the off season
are they paying for the private lessons? if so pay for your kid
why would the assistant coach need the head coach to train his kid? why would he not just do it himself
how old are the girls in question?
Asst coach is not a he. Probably same group of westport girls he coaches at CFC U15.
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