[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=FlyerInHi]So why is he going to SDSU instead of a top engineering school?[/quote]
BECAUSE HE IS NOT ASIAN!
Kidding FLU… Kidding…
Just playing with the whole SCA-5 thing…
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he never got a good dose of tiger parenting. Instead, he got a quasihippie bout of “unschooling” and “freeschooling” during his homeschool days from 2 through 8th grade. i probably should ahve let him know along the way that grades might actually matter at some point. there will probably be backlash of comparable hippie homeschooling among overhelicoptered asian kids in the next generation…
one asian woman is of course not a representtive sample, but a former youngish highly credentialled, superdiligent asian woman i once worked with who i keep up with on facebook had two kids, seems to have kind of dropped out and is just kind of hanging her kids…not sure what’ll happen when they hit school, but she seems from her posts to be a different breed than the stereotyped asian parent with hardcore school prep in the media…
there were whole days my kid spent just reading a book and practicing on his slackline in the yard. i was thinking the other day about this “wind tunnel” i once came home to in i think 2006…justa large window fan on the floor with a blanket pnned ina tube around it….and they’d been reading about windtunnels…and telling meabout it…while we were just lying on the floor underthis fluttering blanket by a fan… “come on pa…get int he wind tunnel…”
it was a beautiful, odd, antiestablishment childhood…but it definitely wasn’t designed for college admission prep…if he hadn’t gotten sucha high sat score, probably be at the community college…and of course he didn’t study for the damn SAT that i can recall…even though i bought hima little princeton review study guide…and i used to work at princeton review in the 80’s when they were just getting going…and i tried to give him some tips..but would he listen? no…and i didnt even really give a damn..although i knew i was wasting my money when i bought the stupid little reveiw book …..
one potential benefit to this admittedly risky school philosophy is that he is definitely not now burnt out on grades. he didnt use any mental energy whatsoever in hs being concerned about grades…but he somehow got the memo from us (and maybe life, and the school, and peers) recently that grades matter and is actually applying some thought in how to get the number to be closer to 4.0 than 3.0. Might even be a tad stressed about it, which is nice to see…he told us recently that he was told the avg GPA at SDSUis close to 2.0(?!) and the level of slacking, partying, and classskipping is fairly high…
what about serious girlfriends?
they also seem concerning…
they seem to take a lot of time and attention….
never seem to have the time to invite me into a wind tunnel anymore…
my brother actualy met his wife when he was 18 and never spllit up…like 30 years ago…weird to think he was my kids age…
