Why do most parents in America seem to care more about their kids' test scores than their mental health?

[InsecureLivesMatter]

Before some trigger-happy leftists (thankfully, not moderate Kamala Harris supporters) get upset: Yes, I did mean the US, not America as a continent (which is called the Americas).

For everyone else, what is even up with the stigmatization of mental health in the US? The explicity or implicity of such? I did not even get therapy until I was 18, and even then, it has become minimal since I was like 23.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

USA? I think it's generalized, all over the planet.

Civilizations are not equal on this matter though, some philosophical traditions seem more inclined to consider mental health than others. Though, I don't think it's still true nowadays, since the world has become globalized, united for capitalism. Europe and, as a consequence their settlers, like USA, seems to be rooted in pragmatism, in a materialistic goal-oriented approach of life, for so long. It never included the concept of mental health, as far as I can see.

Psychology, that is, trying to understand mental health is 200 years old.
First cities seem to have started to appear 6.000 years ago.
Mental health concept is so new, in comparison, and so complex.

Productivity above all should be the reason to live for any countries in the world by now. Countries are made of people, so people are looking at productivity as their primary goal. Ironically, unsupervised mental health decreases productivity. That's some kind of sarcastic HR humor by now.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

but it was conquered toward the world by the US, nice try diddy

[bobby_bush_eater]

It's hard to measure their lives, the parent may also be the cause or reason for negative things in a child's life so then they'd need self reflection/introspection, that's all hard, grades are easy to see and you don't have to do anything as a parent

[Anonymous]

Because if they are getting low test scores they may end up at a shitty college and waste thousands of dollars on a degree that's not good enough to wip their butt's with and then they end up living in their homes until they are 40 working minimum wage and Starbucks

[Gold618]

moderate Kamala Harris supporters

People like that do not exist.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

Stop listening to CIA propaganda

[Gold618]

The CIA (and FBI) were the ones promoting her, because they prefer compliant presidents who are controlled by the deep state.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

nice try diddy

[KrakenAttackin]

This is the mothers, who are ultra -competitive, pushing this shit on their kids.

Obsessing about being in advanced classes, getting good grades, so you can get into a "better", more expensive college (more debt), so you can become a slave to a "better" corporate master; makes no sense to me.

Men have realized how the above is fundamentally flawed, which is why so many men are opting out of college.

[ArrowheadSW]

Right. Back in my days in elementary school and high school, there wasn't as much of a push for the best grades. Regardless, I still got into a decent college and even a grad program. They went more by your interest in the subject and not necessarily the grades. And as far as getting into "the best" college, who cares anyway?

[KrakenAttackin]

@ArrowheadSW Agreed.

[DrPepper12]

As I teacher I can confirm this 100% grades before lives. It's sick.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

I wish there were more teachers like you!

[exitseven]

They know that their kids will never get into Harvard unless they have a 4.0 average and 1500 SAT scores. Who cares it they are nuts? Harvard sure doesn't.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Legacies get into the Ivies because of Daddy's and/or Mommy's money ala Dummy Bush !!!

[exitseven]

@beefcakebradybatson yes, there is that too, The more I saw of Harvard the less impressed I was.

[beefcakebradybatson]

They should concentrate on recruiting bright poor-and working-class folk, as the ruling class today is MEGA-DUMB !!!

[exitseven]

@beefcakebradybatson I used to have Harvard University as a customer. I used to talk to some of the student s. These kids didn't know which end was up.

[beefcakebradybatson]

My 19-year-old great-niece and 20-year-old great-nephew in New Jersey along with many other young Americans will suffer the grave consequences if these folk become the next generation of American leaders, exitseven.

[beefcakebradybatson]

American are backwards in most ways, and prioritizing their kids' mental health in this goober era seems like coddling their kids to most cavefolk !!!

[RedInnocent69]

Because being great and being mentally healthy are not the same. Churchill and FDR both had lousy mental health

[RavVid]

i could argue test scores are a proxy of child mental health and rather think it s.

[Pterodon]

I agree. It’s because people for centuries have been brainwashed that the teacher is always right

[Anonymous]

Because most republicans are insane.

[noohair]

Because we live in a numbers society.

[Anonymous]

Then welcome to asia

[InsecureLivesMatter]

stop believing CIA propaganda

[Opinion Owner]

wdym

[InsecureLivesMatter]

this whole Asian kids are smarter and richer than white kids is based on CIA's reduction of including poor Asian kids along with poor white kids