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[quote=Anonymous]As a child of Asian descent who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I find it kind of funny that all the time the US has spent mocking and villifying East Asians has backfired. I remember the decades of white Americans talking about how Asians aren’t creative, can’t think, drills are bad, memorization is terrible, and kids and people should be free to be and do whatever, (along with lots of stereotypes about nerdy and boring studious Asians in the media, tv shows and films).

As it turns out, kids do need to memorize some facts. There ARE some right and wrong answers! Things are slowly changing and the pendulum is swinging back a bit, but my kid is still suffering the effects of self esteem culture and anti-Asian/pro-ed-tech education. I think it is crazy that my kid’s teachers are saying there is no wrong way to spell (brave spelling!) and there is no such thing as a wrong math answer. 2+2 is 4. We SHOULD be telling a 6 year old that 2+2=5 is wrong. It won’t crush his sense of self worth. [/quote]

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