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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4th grader: 
piano 1x a week
math comp class 1x a week
heritage language school - 6hrs on sat but includes chess + lego robotics + add. language[/quote]

Very tiger [/quote]

Learning your heritage language while doing fun activities isn’t tiger parenting, it is helping to maintain family heritage. [/quote]

For 6 hrs every Saturday? Please.  Parents can teach heritage through their every day lives at home. [/quote]

We have never participated in language school but the people I know who do appreciate the time spent with people from their country, the use of language, and the social interaction. That is not being a tiger parent, that is prioritizing understanding your heritage and language. Heritage is more than just speaking the language. Some of us live in communities like us and can learn those traditions and history easily enough, not everyone has that benefit.

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Yes. I have tiger tendencies but if I applied them to heritage language, I’d be shelling out for a private language tutor and spending those Saturday hours on sports or music.

Heritage language school is a great environment that normalizes the culture. Mine spent K-2nd going almost every Saturday and now is SO proud of his background. They work hard at language school, but also have fun events and serve the food. Such a hard experience to try to replicate if you married outside your ethnicity, don’t go to that ethnicity’s church/temple or if you have no extended family around. [/quote]

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