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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in NYC. My kid got the necessary score to go to Stuyvesant. We opted out. Total striver fest. It is big enough that this does not refer to everyone. It is very heavily Asian. But there are Asian kids there who are not strivers. But there are many who are. And some non-Asians who are.

It seemed like a miserable place to go to school. My child is smart enough to succeed there. And there are plenty of kids who go there and end up as smart, well-rounded, kind, well-adjusted human beings. But too many don't. Not how we wanted them to spend four years. Bronx Science also had lots of strivers, but it did not permeate the culture in the same way.

IYKYK (that means If You Know You Know - a good term to differentiate non-strivers from strivers).[/quote]

Sounds like "striver"  is just your lack of faith in your own child's personality and your parenting. [/quote]

Actually the opposite. Most of these kids have zero personality. [b]My child has one.[/b] While also being as smart or smarter than all of these kids - it is possible to be really smart and well-adjusted. If it takes 100% of your child's effort to excel academically and the have no bandwidth left for anything else, perhaps your child actually isn't that smart. And again - I said most, not all. Plenty of exceptions to the rule who are great kids at Stuy.

Your childish response screams striver. Very defensive. Irrational self-assurance. Totally lacking self-awareness. No emotional intelligence. I'm sure that you think none of these are important personality characteristics. I beg to differ.[/quote]
What is that? A racist a-hole like yourself?[/quote]

How many posts have there been very clearly explaining that this is not a racist term? Yet you can't get over that. Going through life with this gigantic chip on your shoulder is going to result in a miserable, unsuccessful life. And I'm sure you will reply with how wildly successful you are. But you're not. Because you are making stupid statements on an internet message board and showing a lack of understanding of a basic term.

And how do you even know what race I am? You know what happens when you assume?[/quote]

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