asian parents think education is everything for a kid. I guess the thought process has some of "No fucking way my kid is going to make me look bad"
Got the crap beat out of me in school back in the late 70s and early 80s. Particularly 83... I got enrolled in a particular class that is basically all the kids from the rich and famous (except us of course, we just happended to be friends of the chair of the board). The home form teacher told us she has always come in at number one (we had like 20 classes of the same grade. Would be grade 7 in North America). Context being we are being prepared to write entrance exams to high schools and if you get into better high schools your chances of making it to university is higher.
we had weekly quiz, and the standard for our class was 80%. You get whacked in your palm (or butt) once per percent below 80.
so your subject teacher beat you up, then your home form teacher gets the results and beat you up again.
My class number was 1...and I suck at school... you can imagine how much whacking I got.
And the home form teacher was preggies at the time... so hormones also play a role.
She broke quite a few 4ft long rattan staff on us...