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[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 [b]qualities outside of their control and baseless to achievement are getting prioritized over what should matter[/b] 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. [b]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,[/b] 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.

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

You are presuming that grades and “hard work” are all that matter.  First, someone who may not have as good as grades as your child [b]perhaps worked as hard[/b], but barriers put before them (that are outside of THEIR control) moved their starting point back a little — they worked hard nonetheless and[b] possibly overcame MORE [/b]than your child.  Second, success in the real world goes beyond grades.  Studies have shown (over and over) how different perspectives, different backgrounds, and different experiences lead to greater success in business, research, and other industries.  That is what colleges are looking for — diversity — whether you like it or not.  [/quote]

That's an interesting question, and one that simply cannot be answered based on the level of details provided by a college application. No, instead they have gone straight to skin color as a differentiator. Absent actual evidence, it's simply racist to assume that a black person achieving the same level as an Asian person must have worked harder. Skin color is also an improper proxy for so-called different perspectives, backgrounds, or experiences, because a simple demographic study shows that there is *FAR* more of these things within the Asian community than the more homogenous African American community. My kids are born in the US, they share very little with Chinese immigrants, and even less with Indian immigrants. Yet we are all blended in the same spot and shunned for lack of "diversity". Colleges are looking for superficial race balance, rather than true diversity. [/quote]

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