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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you pay for "academic" memorization summer camps and Chinese school to jump your kid ahead of everyone else, and then complain that....your kid is ahead of everyone else? Its public school, dude.  [/quote]

Hate to break it to you, but this is how asian culture works.  Chinese are highly competitive when it comes to academics. The school basically going back to pre-school level is unacceptable in my opinion. Today my son came home with a zip lock bag that he is supposed to put beans in to count.

We live in a global world,  our kids will get trounced if they don't keep up with others.  Our parents pushed us the same. [/quote]

And your teen suicide rate is one of the highest in the world, much higher than the U.S., most of which are attributable to school stress. But yeah, you’ve got it all figured out, dead kids are fungible anyway, right?[/quote]

I'm not sure how well traveled you are, but you might find that other cultures in the world place premiums on other things and don't consider life and equality to be as important.  China is highly competitive place, where people will do whatever they can to get an advantage over others.  The attitude there is pretty much, if you can't make it you either didn't try hard enough, didn't cheat enough, or didn't have the connections.

I know that may sound horrible to a western mind, but that is the truth of life in Asia.  Here in American we are competing against that mentality, and yes we are loosing on that front.[/quote]

So you’re saying that in Chinese culture, kids commuting suicide over school pressure is totally okay because if they’re not the best they might as well be dead? You are a depraved human being.[/quote]

In Asian cultures, this is considered acceptable.  Things haven't changed.  In asia (China, Japan, Korea) working crazy hours, or at the very least [i]the appearance of working many hours[/i], is part of the culture. People kill themselves over failure at work and school. It isn't just me, you're calling a billion plus people depraved.  Why aren't you respecting our culture, like a global citizen should?

Keep in mind that in ancient China, anyone could take the imperial exams as a way to get out of poverty.  http://www.chinasage.info/examinations.htm  It was one of the first meritocracies in the world going back around 2,000 years.

The pressures back then continue today in the high stakes exams required for high school and college admissions, for example the Chinese gaokao:

You can see some of the sample questions here:  http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/19325/30-absolutely-insane-questions-from-china-s-gaokao-exam

Most of the rest of the world, the culture is sink or swim,  thats what you have to compete against.  There is no coddling, its tough love.
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