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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on their accents these are clearly UMC kids.  Their parents and teachers have spent *years* building these language skills and manners.  Prioritizing this takes time, effort, money, and buy-in.  US culture would need to change drastically if we wanted to recreate this over here.  [/quote]
Ok.

But aren’t most kids in the nice parts of the dc metro area also UMC? [/quote]
See my part about time, effort, money, and buy-in.  UMC DMV families have different priorities.  We are more progressive, we value convenience and personal freedoms more, and duty to society less, we are more open-minded in some ways and tolerant of certain behaviors that stem from disabilities, and we are less tolerant of certain types of bullying behaviors that thrive in UK schools.  We afford young people more time and flexibility to figure out their educational paths and lives, which means less early specialization and less focus on national assessments where every student is accustomed to being compared to their peers across the whole nation.  Etc.  I agree the videos were fun to watch.  [/quote]

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