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[quote=Anonymous]Every parent gets to choose their kid's path through childhood. Assuming that they are not abusive,  that's their right.

We all prioritize different things. The Asian stereotype of "all academics, all the time" (often more typical of lower-income first-gen immigrants struggling to make it in the US, who know that education is the key to higher-earning professions back in their home country, and assume the test-driven academic achievement pattern holds  true in the US as well) generally does not, in fact, lead to what top colleges are looking for in candidates. Those narrowly focused kids -- without SEL skills, without sports and other extracurriculars -- may guarantee themselves spots at state schools (where, stereotypically, they will be pushed into STEM careers), but are unlikely to get into private schools looking for more breadth.

Parents prioritizing less stressful, broader educations have to accept that they are making tradeoffs, in which their kids are not, in fact, going to make the top of the academic ladder, but have more enriched lives and possibly will go on to happier adulthoods with more options for their future.

Now, where the white UMC really stress is when their kids are up against Asian families who parent just a little bit differently and whose kids may excel because of it. (This parenting style is not exclusive to Asians but statistically more prevalent.) These are families who believe in the value of education, set high standards, and expect kids to work hard in the pursuits that those kids choose, but  where the kids also have breadth -- kids who also do sports and music in addition to academics, for instance. In general, these families (often second-gen immigrants) are going to be culturally very similar to the white UMCs around them, so their  kids are  not "stereotypically Asian", but their skin color is different and thus these Asians become a target of white fear.
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