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[quote=Anonymous]For those who don't understand, here is an example of striver behavior (not a perfect example) from my child's fifth grade class.

Kids were assigned to write a page and illustrate about an animal. Very specifically said one page and not to go over. They were going to present this on a day parents visited class. Two strivers (both Caucasian, by the way) write 3+ pages, plus very elaborate illustrations.  Lots of big words clearly aided by parents - these kids actually are very bright, but not this bright.

On parents day these parents glowed with pride when it was their kid's turn, with a very professional looking assignment while others kids were perfectly fine but looked like things created by kids in that grade.

The kid starts reading and starts turning to the second page. The teacher stops them. Teacher says that there is only time for one page per kid - that was the assignment and there is limited time. Striver mom is horrified - she wants junior to show off how brilliant he is. Other parents are relieved as they need to go to work and don't have time for this and think junior should receive a bad grade for not following directions. Plus they are happy that the teacher is aware of the problem, rather than many teachers who would praise this behavior. Junior makes a tone deaf, rude comment about how their report is the best and their parent nods their head.[/quote]

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