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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, some weird Asian cheerleading going on in this thread.[/quote]
I don't think it's Asian cheerleading, so much as annoyance at wealthy white parents that don't like the fact their little Johnnies and Susies are finding it too hard to compete, and the fact that white kids as a whole have more advantages in life than most other races to begin with, and here their parents are complaining.[/quote]

Whose doing that?  The wholemthing was spurred by Asian kids committing suicide in Palio Alto and a unusually large number of kids expressing suicidia thoughts in Princeton Junction.  Are we to assume these kids should just be sacrificed to keep the system going?[/quote]

I don't agree with the amount of pressure kids are under these days, but I agree with another PP.. if parents don't like it, move.  That's what we did.  I'm from the Palo Alto area.  I have no doubt that some of these white, wealthy parents put their own kinds of pressure on their kids. There are plenty of white/wealthy kids that have taken drugs to help them cope with stress and pressure.  Why didn't the that community sound off then?  Why just now when Asian American kids are upping the competition?  [/quote]

Asian kids aren't "just now" upping the competition.  There's been a large Asian population in this school system for decades.  Clearly, quite a few posters feel it's better to let a few kids kill themselves rather than let them take one less AP, interesting to see where people's priorities lie.

In any case, my kids go to private school so I have no dog in this fight, seems like people are invested in making this a "white people can't stand how superior Asians are" thread, so have at it.[/quote]

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