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[quote=Anonymous]Another Indian here -- extra math problems are certainly ringing a bell. None of the formal tutoring/Kumon/Sylvan stuff (not sure how much of that existed in the last 80s-early 90s), but worksheets made up by my parents. So you never got away with -- I have no hw tonight or my homework is done in 30 min.

If you had no homework, you had at least 45 min-1 hr of parent made homework, which was treated the same way as real homework. My parents weren't crazed though had high expectations re straight As, ivy degrees etc. -- but they did believe that U.S. elementary schools don't give kids enough homework and when they do a lot of it is "play" like creating some art related thing that is supposed to be a science project.

They were used to Indian education where even 4-5 yr olds study hours a night and by middle/high school you are seemingly awake day and night (from what I saw of my cousins there) between doing school work and all your additional tutoring for college entrance exams which can make or break your life financially if you don't get in anywhere. So being first gen, they were shocked to see perfectly capable 2nd graders color for 15 min and say they were done their hw.[/quote]

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