Are Asians too competitive?

[Pakman]

This is what happens when asians makeup the majority of the classroom.

 

[0roo0roo]

better to be uncompetitive like other minorities so the whites can move away because they are just racist.

 

[yllus]

Mr. Rowley, who is white, enrolled his only son, Eddie, at Lynbrook. When Eddie started freshman geometry, the boy was frustrated to learn that many of the Asian students in his class had already taken the course in summer school, Mr. Rowley recalls. That gave them a big leg up.

Wah.

There's nothing wrong with putting in extra time and dedication to get an edge. The point that studies in the maths and sciences are emphasized at the expense of the liberal arts is a concern, but one that will likely be self-corrected.

 

[mugs]

So the white kids are leaving because the asians are too smart for them? Cry me a river. :roll:

 

[Fenixgoon]

smarter kids, good. now if we can convince everyone that academics are important, then that'll be something. obviously kids need a break from academics to leisure, but a nearly 100% sporting school is just as bad, if not worse, than a 100% academic school.

i'd definitely take academic school over sporting school any day:thumbsup:

 

[AnyMal]

So... what's the problem?

 

[Howard]

I guess nobody wants to be accountable for anything.

 

[Pakman]

Personally, I probably won't push my kids as much as my parents did to do well in school. It'll be important no doubt, but you only get to be a kid once.

 

[PoPPeR]

yeah I had a 3.0 average and I was ranked like 190th out of 250 or something in my 2003 graduating class. I'm asian and went to a school similar to Monte Vista. I'm surprised they dont offer boys volleyball anymore considering I swear my high school played them my junior year when I was involved in that sport.

Anyways, I think this article is hilarious. Sorry if asians don't fully appreciate football games and whatnot; but then again we dont exactly have many players in the NFL do we. We don't like football, everyone else makes fun of us for supposedly being great ping pong players as soon as we're born.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: Pakman
Personally, I probably won't push my kids as much as my parents did to do well in school. It'll be important no doubt, but you only get to be a kid once.

Thus the only opportunity to really soak up that knowledge while you're brain still lets you. Nowdays I can only wish that my parents pushed me harder (or at all for that matter). Going back to college in my 30's I can tell the difference between how well 18 year old's can learn and someone of my age group.

 

[axelfox]

Wanna bet?

 

[shilala]

Wait a minute...
Nope, I don't care.

 

[Storm]

I'm real curious to see the atmosphere at those high schools.

Sure academics are important but is overtaking everything in the lives of those students?

You need to have a balance of extracurricular activities and academics.

Maybe the kind of pressure to succeed was too much?

Those Asian students with parents whose primparily language isn't English tend to stress academics more because it would obviously help their kids in the future to go into better schools and obtain better jobs. Was the pressure to do so well absolutely cutthroat where students wouldn't help one another because it would remove the edge?

 

[herkulease]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
yeah I had a 3.0 average and I was ranked like 190th out of 250 or something in my 2003 graduating class. I'm asian and went to a school similar to Monte Vista. I'm surprised they dont offer boys volleyball anymore considering I swear my high school played them my junior year when I was involved in that sport.

Anyways, I think this article is hilarious. Sorry if asians don't fully appreciate football games and whatnot; but then again we dont exactly have many players in the NFL do we. We don't like football, everyone else makes fun of us for supposedly being great ping pong players as soon as we're born.

Its not just ping pong, its practically anything with a racket. badminton, tennis,

Don't like football? I'm asian I played football in high school and badminton. Never had dreams of the NFL though, no size.

 

[akubi]

asian invasion sounds a lot better than white flight

 

[alphatarget1]

extra curricular activities my a$$. Academic comes first, period. Sports is something you do on the side for fun. If the PE program here is so successful then there wouldn't be so many fat kids. Kids need to realise that very few of them/their peers are going to make it to the pro. Yeah, I guess the athletes do provide us with entertainment.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dumbassjocks

 

[RichieZ]

the article kinda of exagerates, but it is true that academics are really stressted at those schools. I went to a neighboring high school that is very similar, sill over 50% asian population. My GPA was ~4.37 and I was barely top 10%

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: RichieZ
the article kinda of exagerates, but it is true that academics are really stressted at those schools. I went to a neighboring high school that is very similar, sill over 50% asian population. My GPA was ~4.37 and I was barely top 10%

I studied very little in HS, had a lot of fun, and wish I could go back.
Not making the big bucks atm, but oh well.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Sports have NO PLACE in schools at any level. The fact that we spend any taxpayer money at all on sports is reprehensible.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Sports have NO PLACE in schools at any level. The fact that we spend any taxpayer money at all on sports is reprehensible.

:roll:

I agree that we do spend waaaaaay too much on sports, but school is about more than staring at books, especially HS.

 

[rh71]

One son, Andrew, 17 years old, took the high-school exit exam last summer and left the school to avoid the academic pressure. He is currently working in a pet-supply store.

... and he will continue to work for them if he keeps quitting because it's "too hard".

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Sports have NO PLACE in schools at any level. The fact that we spend any taxpayer money at all on sports is reprehensible.

Students who are active in extracurricular(sp?) activities are less likely to use drugs or alcohol.

 

[Juno]

well, i should WHINE for that reason.

i am asian and i graduated from public high school where white students made up like 95% of the student body while asian made like 3% and 2% other.

it wasn't my concern, nothing really bothered me. i was fine with my choice i made.

 

[Sam334]

Throw a couple of these guys in the school. Problem solved.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: Sam334
Throw a couple of these guys in the school. Problem solved.

lol