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"intense academics stole my childhood and didn't have the value that the adults believe they have"

Exactly right. We put people on the moon and we did it without grinding 8 year olds with hours and hours of homework.

These parents are absolutely relentless on their kids. It's a really sad expression of 'keep up with Joneses'.

> We put people on the moon and we did it without grinding 8 year olds with hours and hours of homework.

Really? Do you mean that typical NASA engineers, astronauts, and other hard-working and gifted people involved in the Great Space Race, typically were not intensely trained, but just had all childhood time full of playing?

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