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https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/10/23/the-confucian-cure-for-tiger-parenting/>
"In 2011, Amy Chua wrote
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, an ambiguous paean
to her ferocious effort to drive her daughters to academic excellence. The book
was an instant bestseller and ignited a controversy between proponents of hard
work and defenders of a more relaxed, permissive parenting style. Eight years
later, a new story demonstrated what tiger mothering looks like at scale: the
Varsity Blues scandal revealed the machinations of over 750 affluent families
in greater Los Angeles to gain admissions to prestigious universities, from
falsified disability reports to gain extra SAT time to outright bribery of
college athletics coaches.
What Chua’s defenders and critics had both missed over a decade ago was that
academics was only one domain of fierce competition for college admission.
Beyond the exposed fraud lay a vast domain of legitimate parental striving,
from choreographed service trips and niche sports to paid admissions
consultants and million-dollar donations.
Underpinning it all was a determination that by outworking their peers and
jumping through the necessary faddish hoops, one’s child could gain the
crowning glory of acceptance to an elite university. What the debate over
Chua’s tactics obfuscated is that there is, in fact, a broad consensus among
parents about the paramount value of elite admissions and how far one should go
to achieve it. Everyone is a tiger parent now."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-tb-emissions-china-deforestation-colombia/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
