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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a great article on how to teach your child to have no competitive spirit and be happy with what meager rations they are given.

Kids this bright are quite aware of who is getting into the schools they and their friends have been targeting for 2 or 3 years and they can see the reverse discrimination and unfairness at play. They are not 2 year olds looking for moms reaction on this.

Maybe responsible parenting is acknowledging that while top schools are a stretch for everyone, it IS unfair that qualities outside of their control and baseless to achievement are getting prioritized over what should matter and thus impacting your child's results.  It's not fair and there is nothing we can do.

But that they will still go to a good school and because they are brilliant they will make the best of it. The world will level out once they get past the insanity/bubble of college admissions because in the real world results matter more than checking a demographic box and brilliance and hard work will pay off, regardless of liberal agendas.

Companies focus on things that matter and so while this phase of life will illustrate to them the unfairness of racism of discrimination, the good news is that they will be past this BS in four years.

Pp here.  My son’s best friend is a black boy. He is not African American.  He is black South African. And he and his family refer to themselves as black so I do as well.  And no, nobody is laying bricks (what a stupid question).  But my son needs to perform better through high school and in extracurriculars to get into the same level of college.  His friend faces discrimination now and will later, but that does not change the fact that you son needs to perform better for purposes of gaining admission to the same colleges.  It’s not at all a sod story. My kids are incredibly fortunate in many ways and Gi’s willing will have opportunities to do well in whatever they choose.  That doesn’t change the fact that they need to do better in school and extracurricular activities than their URM peers to get into the same college.  Does anyone actually disagree with that?

That is the article I would write.[/quote]

Holy entitled brat!  Maybe they just picked up on these kids messed up superiority complexes and said no thanks.[/quote]

That you get "entitled brat" out of the perspective that performance should be rewarded without regard to skin color, religion or socioeconomic status is exactly why we have a problem.[/quote]

Performance is subjective.   Your superstar is great but so are others.  Your think the "performance" of your genius is superior and others have a different opinion.[/quote]

Different poster but the fact is that my kids (white) need to score higher by over 100 points (closer to 200) on SAT and have a higher gpa to get into the same schools as their friends who are black.  It’s simply the truth.  May be good or bad for out society overall, but it’s true and my kids know it (shouldn’t they?!?).  So they need to work harder, perform better and have a more appealing set of extracurricular activities.  Other groups have had to do that at other times for admissions and now it is the turn for my kids.  It’s important that they know.  Our son’s closest friend at a top private will be a full pay black boy.  So when my kid asks if he can spend the summer in the same way that his friend does, my answer is no. Because you need to have a higher standard for the same result. And, sadly, your black friend will likely face discrimination later in life and he will need to be a higher standard. I don’t think it’s a problem to give kids, really young adults, the information they need to navigate this.[/quote]

Oh ease tell us about the "black boy" summer.  Is he sitting around eating bon bons and you kid is laying brick?[/quote][/quote]

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