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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ours are mostly Asian, and the parents do *not* speak English.  It is a big deal, in reality.

In truth, I think the teachers want to win at any cost, and prefer to not have parent communication, but do want parental involvement (to motivate the children).  In other words, I think the teachers may fear that the white kids do not have the tiger parenting.

In reality, I know some over qualified (!!!!) white children who were overlooked because **supposedly** the S/O is chosen by "lottery" (fairly unbelievable).  No doubt, it is the school's loss.  It is especially the school's loss if the parent is highly successful and speaks English, too.

I wonder if certain media outlets would be curious to know about this practice.

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That's a wacky school you are in, or you have no idea how it goes with your SO team.
I assume you are talking about division A SO, because division B most likely will be tested in.
There is no "winning school" for division A this year, all projects are for the individual kids (in 2 kids team), so there is no point to have the "winning kids only' on the team. And the teachers will have no idea which kids are the "winning kids" for SO, since it's totally different from the class learning. For the research projects, yes, you probably can 'tiger" some, but the building projects won't benefit a whole lot from "tiger parenting". The kids have to do the project themselves.[/quote]

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