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WTF lol. I'd be gone.
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MD Buckeye;1153703; said:
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Thank you, fellas, for supporting my (what seems to be) lame thread
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DaytonBuck
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damn overachievers, I bet those chics whore it out like Kobe Thai when they get to the US. That's a lot of pent up fun from high school
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When we were in Chapel Hill last year, my daughters primary school friends were primarily Chinese. The school principal told me that 2007 was the first year that Korean and Chinese kids, whose parents were visiting to complete advanced research degrees at Duke, UNC, and NC State or in the Triangle Research Park, outnumbered American-born kids at the largest primary school in Chapel Hill.
There were 31 kids getting off the school bus at our stop every day in an upmarket area of Chapel Hill and only 3 were white.
Americans have no idea what we are up against in competing for intellectual superiority in this century. The doctoral programs at our top universities are primarily foreign students (Chinese, Indian, Korean, Taiwanese) and have been for some time for a reason. The educational systems at primary and secondary level have caught up with us and in many cases surpassed us.
The school my daughter attended in Chapel Hill was rated among the best in the state. My wife and I had taken our daughter through the remainder of 3rd grade South African syllabus prior to 4th grade in NC. but she had had just three months in SA prior to our departure for UNC. I didn't see any difference between the US and South Africa. Both were excellent.
What surprised me was how much the Koreans worked their kids after hours.
Our daughter is nine and in a normal public school here. We are both professors and her brother is competing his doctorate and another is in b-school. She has had to sit through my lectures or her moms since she was 4 years of age, when one of our cars is in for service or whatever. And I write at home. So, she has been around books and computers her whole life. She spends two hours a night on homework and did in the US as well.
She speaks American and South African English (there are small differences) and is becoming conversant in Afrikaans and Xhosa, as will all of her fellow students. By the time she finishes sixth grade, she will be fluent in both additional languages. She began pre-algebra here in third grade (introductory set theory, variables, simple equations). Her courses include management science, even at this young age. She takes hip-hop and modern dance, piano, and guitar lessons during after school intramurals and has about two or three hours a day of hard play with here friends after school before starting her homework.
I used to think that was an awful lot, and had discussed with my wife trying to get her to scale it back a bit. Then, we met her Korean friends. They filled that two hours of play time with horseriding lessons, competitive maths, etc, etc. So, I'm letting my daughter keep up with her friends and trying to emphasize that when she doesn't get an A (we don't have grade inflation here like back home) she shouldn't feel bad unless she didn't really try to do her best.
I'm not sure what kind of people such an education turns out, but I am sure that these kids will have skills that I did not have when they reach university. Seems to me that should be ringing alarm bells somewhere.
There were 31 kids getting off the school bus at our stop every day in an upmarket area of Chapel Hill and only 3 were white.
Americans have no idea what we are up against in competing for intellectual superiority in this century. The doctoral programs at our top universities are primarily foreign students (Chinese, Indian, Korean, Taiwanese) and have been for some time for a reason. The educational systems at primary and secondary level have caught up with us and in many cases surpassed us.
The school my daughter attended in Chapel Hill was rated among the best in the state. My wife and I had taken our daughter through the remainder of 3rd grade South African syllabus prior to 4th grade in NC. but she had had just three months in SA prior to our departure for UNC. I didn't see any difference between the US and South Africa. Both were excellent.
What surprised me was how much the Koreans worked their kids after hours.
Our daughter is nine and in a normal public school here. We are both professors and her brother is competing his doctorate and another is in b-school. She has had to sit through my lectures or her moms since she was 4 years of age, when one of our cars is in for service or whatever. And I write at home. So, she has been around books and computers her whole life. She spends two hours a night on homework and did in the US as well.
She speaks American and South African English (there are small differences) and is becoming conversant in Afrikaans and Xhosa, as will all of her fellow students. By the time she finishes sixth grade, she will be fluent in both additional languages. She began pre-algebra here in third grade (introductory set theory, variables, simple equations). Her courses include management science, even at this young age. She takes hip-hop and modern dance, piano, and guitar lessons during after school intramurals and has about two or three hours a day of hard play with here friends after school before starting her homework.
I used to think that was an awful lot, and had discussed with my wife trying to get her to scale it back a bit. Then, we met her Korean friends. They filled that two hours of play time with horseriding lessons, competitive maths, etc, etc. So, I'm letting my daughter keep up with her friends and trying to emphasize that when she doesn't get an A (we don't have grade inflation here like back home) she shouldn't feel bad unless she didn't really try to do her best.
I'm not sure what kind of people such an education turns out, but I am sure that these kids will have skills that I did not have when they reach university. Seems to me that should be ringing alarm bells somewhere.
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MD Buckeye
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[quote='BusNative;115381;9]Thank you, fellas, for supporting my (what seems to be) lame thread
I know who my true friends are around here[/quote]
I know who my true friends are around here
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