For the parents who are considering sending their children to the best academic school in town that focuses on science and mathematics, there's something you need to know about what an academic school doesn't have.

The reason why I advice many parents to reconsider where to send off their kids is because my parents also sent me to the best school in town since I was in elementary, and now as I grow up and I'm in college, I wish I had the option of choosing my schools.

There are some things academic schools taught me and there are some things I wish I knew. I believe that if I went to another school, I could have been a different person from what I am today. I could have been the person I wanted to be and not what my parents or the school wanted me to be.

Yes, I agree that academic schools gives children the ability to solve problems, be innovative, learn how to be leaders and successful, manage their time, corporate in team work and help them get into the best colleges, but we all know that academic school that focuses on science and mathematics also causes so much stress on the children.

Let's face the reality, kids spend about five to 10 hours each day just to finish their basic homework such as writing a lab, solving math problems and finishing online problems, and on the weekends, they sit at home to write their essays and study for their tests on Monday. Obviously, these kids live in a closed routine circle that doesn't expand much.

These kids grow up without having a talent because homework and projects take all of their time from exploring other options and be creative. You might argue that academic school let students be innovative by designing a robot. Well, is that really fun? And does it let those kids be loose and be creative? Think about the papers and experiments they have to write just for designing this innovative design that they were forced to do because it was a grade. Is this what we call creativity?

There are many students who don't play sports, don't do marching band or choir, and don't want to spend their time and career researching. Where do these kids fall into in this academic schools that their parents chose for them?

Academic schools focus so much on grades and academic progress than on the intellectualism and growth of a child. Just because a child doesn't do well in school, it doesn't mean he/she is unsuccessful. Maybe he or she is good at news reporting, skating, singing and interviewing people. But because these kids don't do well in academic schools, it makes it seem they are a failure which effects on the child growth.

If kids like studying then that's great, but parents can't force a kid into going to an academic school that rely heavily on research and science. Parents can't force knowledge into kids. If kids want to go to the science field trust they will.

Overall, schools shape kids, but it's important to let kids choose the school they feel they fit in. It is important to let kids grow into something they enjoy doing rather being forced to do something they are not interested in because they will start hating schools in general.