Teacher Walks in Student's Shoes, Exhausted

[dragonmom]

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But the expectation of doing EC’s, which used to be a fun activity for kids but is now presented and felt as a requirement if you expect to attend college, is definitely one more time demand put on our kids.

This!,!!!
I did a bunch of activities outside of school. I only discovered that one could list them on college applications after I started filling out college applications in my senior year… My friends and I did these activities because we wanted to… Higher level Scouts or CampFire office, (Eagle, Gold,Wohelo), youth symphony, student council ,hospital volunteer, etc and then met kids from other parts of the state who were into FFA and Grange and other state level leadership roles.
EC s are supposed to be what the kid finds as fun.</p>