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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Asian, and I don't like the uber competitiveness and stress that some of these kids are going through. Having stated that, I do find it curious that many white parents are now complaining about this type of competitive culture that Asian American kids bring to the table, but all was ok when the wealthier white kids were able to succeed, but the poorer kids (mostly minorities) couldn't keep up.  [b]This reminds me a bit of the recent article about how the public wants to treat drug addicts differently now that it's affecting more affluent white kids.  [/b]
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Ding Ding Ding.

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I'm the poster who grew up in this district.  Had one Asian American classmate who committed suicide when  he got a B on his report card(this was in high school).  Not clear from the article the ethnicity of the kid who drew a cartoon of his parent telling him getting an A instead of A plus on a calculus test was a "disgrace" but don't think it is correct that the pressure cooker atmosphere only negatively affects white kids.  This school district is affluent and has never had an issue with disadvantaged kids being hurt by community standa dis being too high.  Nice attempt to try to avoid the real issues though.  [/quote]

I'm the PPP.  I'm not talking about just this one area, but in general.  It's human nature to feel threatened when you hold all the cards and now are threatened.  This is how the WASPS felt when Jews started to increase their numbers in the Ivies.  What did the WASPS do?  They decided to change the admission criteria to weed more of the Jews out.

You have to be living under a rock to think that lower income kids are not disadvantaged compared to the wealthy kids in terms of schooling.  We live in a very mixed SES area.  A lot if not all of the writing HW, and some in class work, in my kids' ES are done on the computer.   I was volunteering one day in my DC's 2nd grade class when they were doing research on the computer.  One kid couldn't finish the research so I said something like "You can try to finish it at home if you want."  The kid said, "I don't have a computer at home".  You don't think this curriculum that required access to a computer affected this kid's ability to keep up in school?  And now adays, so much of the standardized tests are on computers.  My 2nd grader is pretty good on the computer now... knows where all the letters/numbers are on the keyboard. For kids that don't have computers, it takes them a looong time to type anything.  This alone affects their ability to be competitive.[/quote]

This has nothing to do with what the article is about, not saying it isn't a valid issue, just not relevant.[/quote]

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