My Lazy American Students

[kimba1]

but whats the ratio of those bright foreign students are american or exchange students?

if you see what i mean

[BSB]

I see what you mean, Kimba, and I don't know.

[kimba1]

also exchange students shouldn`t even be a factor in this topic .
the theme here is to get american born students to put cut down on the world of warcraft and read twain willingly.

the reason immigrant students do well is because alot of them got no problem doing hard work.
this translate to good study habits.

[kimba1]

p.s. I would greatly blame the parents more than school & teachers.

school & teachers  jobs is to follow certain instructions and in this day and age parents are almost totally responsible for what those instructions are.
if the course study is laxed it is most definately because some parent wanted it that way.

I say this because is san jose alot of the white parents are leaving calfornia because the asian students are raising the bar too high for kids to compete

[BSB]

There was a fear around a few years back that all the top schools would be about 90% asian if we didn't cap their numbers.

[kimba1]

since I rarely hear about asians going to top schools , i always thought our numbers were already capped in those schools.

[BSB]

In a way that could be true, kimba.



Babson dean takes issue with 'lazy' student claim.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/wellesley/2009/12/by_jason_woods_globe_correspon.html

[Religious Dick]

MOn the brighter side, keep those immigrants coming. Particularly the Chinese. We have a great Chinese restaurant near here that on Sundays I order from during the Patriots games. The young lady, about 24/25 I'd guess, Chinese, who delivers for them is exceedingly bright. We start talking at my door and the next thing you know 30 to 40 minutes has gone by.

First you'd have to convince the Chinese to come here. It's not clear why they'd want to. Asia appears to be on a roll. The west, not so much.

This I can tell you - if I were a young man today, I'd be on the next plane to China and never look back.

[kimba1]

the chinese are like the Iotians of star trek,eventually they`ll want a piece of the action.

here`s proof

http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/05/02/disneyland-in-china/

[Plane]

   How many generations of American life does it take to loose the work ethic?





     Could we start an exchange program with China and Mexico , ...
of Parents,...
for training?

[kimba1]

no good
don`t matter what country, parents who do better in life will have the urge to make thier kids life easy and that`s where the decline happens.

but not all parents.
malcolm forbes refuses to rob his kids the chance to make a billion on thier own.
the only leg up he gave is a better education.

you can`t blame american life alone, look at saudi arabia.

those guys don`t exactly have a lifestlye to know when clients can`t afford stuff.

[kimba1]

oops forgot

it only takes one generation, it`s super easy to spoil a kid if you got the money.

[Plane]

I have heard this called "affluenza ", the affliction of haveing more wealth than is good for you.