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If you have got kids, here is a nasty truth: they are probably not very special, that is, they are average, ordinary, and unremarkable. Consider the numbers of those applications your daughter is sending to Ivy League schools, for instance. There are more than a quarter of a million other kids aiming for the same eight colleges at the same time, and less than 9% of them will make the cut. And those hours you spend coaching Little League because you just know your son's sweet swing will take him to the professionals. There are 2.4 million other Little Leaguers out there, and there are exactly 750 openings for major league ballplayers at the beginning of each season. That gives him a 0.0313% chance of reaching the big clubs. The odds are just as long for the other dreams you've had for your kids: your child the billionaire, the Broadway star, the Rhodes scholar. Most of those things are never going to happen.The kids are paying the price for parents' delusions. In public schools, some students are bringing home 17.5 hours of homework per week or 3.5 per school night and it's hard to see how they have time to do it. From 2004 to 2014, the number of children participating in up to three hours of aider-school activities on any given day rose from 6.5 million to 10.2 million. And all the while, the kids are being fed a promise--that they can be tutored and coached, pushed and tested, hot- housed and advance placed until success is assured. At last, a growing chorus of educators and psychologists is saying, "Enough!" Somewhere between the self-esteem building of going for the gold and the self-esteem crushing of the Ivy-or-die ethos there has to be a place where kids can breathe, where they can have the freedom to do what they love and where parents accustomed to pushing their children to excel can shake off the newly defined shame of having raised an ordinary child.
If the system is going to be fixed, it has to start, no surprise, with the parents. For them, the problem isn't merely the expense of the tutors, the chore of the homework checking and the constant search for just the right summer program. It's also the sweat equity that comes from agonizing over every exam, grieving over every disappointing grade--becoming less a guide in a child's academic career than an intimate fellow traveler.
The first step for parents is accepting that they have less control over their children's education than they think they do--a reality that can be both sobering and liberating. You can sign your kids up for ballet camp or violin immersion all you want, but if they're simply doing what they're told instead of doing what they love, they'll take it only so far.
Ultimately, there's a much larger national conversation that needs to be had about just what higher education means and when it's needed at all. Four years of college has been sold as being a golden ticket in the American economy, and to an extent that's true. But pushing all kids down the bachelor's path ensures not only that some of them will lose their way
but also that critical jobs that require a two-year or less--skilled trades, some kinds of nursing, computer technology, airline mechanics and more--will go unfilled.
There will never be a case to be made for a culture of academic complacency or the demolition of the meritocracy. It can be fulfilling for kids to chase a ribbon, as long as it's a ribbon the child really wants. And the very act of making that effort can bring out the best in anyone's work.
But we cheat ourselves, and worse, we cheat our kids, if we view life as a single straight-line race in which one one-hundredth of the competitors finish in the money and everyone else loses.We will all be better off if we recognize that there are a great many races of varying lengths and outcomes. The challenge for parents is to help their children find the one that's right for them.
Which of the following factors deprives the kids of freedom to do what they love?
推断题。由第三段中的“…where they can have the freedom to do what they love… an ordinary child”可知，孩子们不能自由地去做他们喜欢的事情是因为父母不希望自己拥有一个平庸的孩子。 由此可推断出是父母对孩子未来的不现实的期望剥夺了孩子的自由。
有“泥土诗人”之称的诗人是（）。
将下列各项按所表示年龄大小顺序排列，正确的顺序应是（ ）。
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1931年，一位给人们带来光明的科学家重病的消息牵动着世界人民的心，几十名记者为他守夜。每隔一个小时就对外发布一次消息：“灯”还亮着。这位科学家是（ ）。
钱穆在评论中国古代某制度时说，它“可以培植全国人民对政治之兴味……可以团结全国各地域于一个中央之统治”，这一制度是()。
明朝初年强化君主专制的措施是（）。
在我国历史上，传统音乐与外族音乐、北方与南方音乐进行广泛交流的时期是()。
下列哪部歌剧是瓦格纳的作品()
乐器“缶”的制作材料属于（ ）。
双簧管属于（）。
隋唐至宋，在宫廷宴饮时娱乐欣赏的音乐称为()。
