[quote=Ren][quote=flu]I don’t get some of you folks. On one hand, some of you argue that the decline of the education is due to immigrants because immigrants pull the curve down. On the other hand, some of you also argue that certain immigrants are making schools overly competitive to the point that you don’t like the schools being so competitive for your own kids. So which is it?????[/quote]
Both 🙂
The former is worse, though. I don’t want my kids in the same class with kids who are incapable of learning and therefore occupy themselves with distracting the kids who do.
I also don’t want my kids surrounded by the product of tiger moms (who, IMO, are sacrificing good childhood memories for a slightly increased chance at later success, which is APPALLING), damaging their self-worth because I refuse to make them endure 6 hours of homework and music lessons every night.
The only answer is segregation! But seriously, I have an answer for myself (pick the district that suits me), but those with lesser incomes don’t always have that choice.[/quote]
Ren,
I got news for you…You go to any any top notch school, with parents from the same social/economic background, the parents end up being all the same.
It’s not just the asian immigrants that are doing this. The asian tiger mom stereotype, though exists, is very much alive in a well-do white family too.
My kid that goes to the same CarmelV elementary school that has white friends who parents are doctors and lawyers and engineers who are very much in as much a tiger-mom/dad as any other asian tiger parent.
What’s more interesting on my observation is that while among the asian families I know where both parents both a full time job, a lot of the well-to-do white families have a stay-at-home parent, which spends almost the ENTIRE DAY shuffling the kid around from school to enrichment programs to sports to everything else they possibly can cram into one day…The say stay-at-home parent are the ones that constantly volunteer as class parent (which I find admirable, frankly) because they want to know what their kids are doing. And they were the first ones that approached the teacher and told the teacher “the work you are assigning is too easy for my kid, my kid is bored. And if you don’t make the work more challenging for my kid, it’s going to be a problem.”
So I’m not sure why some folks think this entire tiger-parent thing is strictly an asian thing. If at all, it’s more of a social/economic thing.
