[quote=jpinpb] They are taking hard classes.[/quote]

They’re either geniuses or the classes are not hard enough. My guess is that it’s the latter and not the former. That’s speaking from personal experiences. My memory was refreshed the other day when I looked at an old Chinese math competition practise book at the higher elementary grade level. I honestly couldn’t do most of them, certainly not in the time allowed in the test. And I’m as educated as they come at the risk of sounding haughty. In comparison the materials (natural sciences)covered in a typical american school are a joke.

Also speaking from my Chinese mentality–Getting an “A” was easy and a given. So it was not important. What was important to me was to be No 1. If I were the 3rd kid to get an A in the class, it would’ve been a total disaster.

That said, as someone here commented, the best thing to do is to have a good balance and not go to either extreme.