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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Hmm. You are linking the de-stressing of school to a push-back against Asian families, but I’m not sure it’s the case.

Where I live there have been suicides in middle and high schools (due to stress), and the school district has responded by eliminating HW in elementary school, and reducing it in middle school.

I don’t believe it has anything to do with Asian students. Your post felt disingenuous to me.[/quote]

OP here again. I'm linking them because the people making these statements are linking it. They will make statements like:

-[b]Our [/b]community is changing. While [b]we[/b] like the new diversity, [b]we[/b] will not tolerate the intense pressure being placed on students to succeed. Please remember that they are only children once. Grades do not matter as much as you think they matter.  Everyone does not need to go to the best possible school. Everyone shouldn't get As or top scores on the SAT.

It was adding the sentence about this being the changing community and the diversity comment that made everyone know who the principal was talking about in terms of pressure.

I have heard several math teachers complain that regular smart kids just can't keep up with kids that go to outside math tutoring two hours a day and then refer specifically to tiger moms.  I have heard them complain and make comments about spelling bee winners like- of course you will win if you are forced to study hours a day, its not fair that the truly talented kids are being left behind. [/quote]

I guess I find the framing of the first comment problematic, because it seems to reflect the view that some people - likely whites - get to frame what is happening in a community, along with what is likable and acceptable. Those are broader judgments that whites alone should not be making.

Having said that, if a community decides that it has observed more overt competition that it wants to discourage, or that it wants its younger students to "de-stress," that's a perfectly reasonably decision.  If some parents find that it's dumbing down their public schools, they can send their kids to private schools they find more aligned with their educational aspirations.   [/quote]

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