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It is dictated and cleaned up. But I do not get carried away. The meaning is clear.
Way back when I was a National Merit Semi Finalist. You?
I ended up an Engineering VP of a Fortune 50 Company. Have a few hundred patents - 28 in the US. You?
If this^^^ is what being part of the 1% gets you, I’m glad I missed that mark, lol.
No honors in school for me, no college degree, no patents... just a mediocre life of complacency.
Lest we all forget, you don’t have to be in the top 1%, or even the top 10% of your class to find success in life. It’s not that we shouldn’t care about students who aren’t higher achievers, but we need to stop pretending that all kids are capable of taking six AP classes as Juniors, or graduating from university at age 18. And if minority students don’t make that high level, it’s okay. It doesn’t mean they’ll be failures in life.
I’ve held a job in an artistic field that I absolutely loved. How many people can say they LOVE their job? We’re not rolling in money - in fact we’re hurting due to extended Covid shutdowns - but I have a great life. Four amazing kids, a caring husband, good health for all, volunteer work, coaching kids...
Not being in a gifted program isn’t the end of the world.
If this^^^ is what being part of the 1% gets you, I’m glad I missed that mark, lol.
No honors in school for me, no college degree, no patents... just a mediocre life of complacency.
Lest we all forget, you don’t have to be in the top 1%, or even the top 10% of your class to find success in life. It’s not that we shouldn’t care about students who aren’t higher achievers, but we need to stop pretending that all kids are capable of taking six AP classes as Juniors, or graduating from university at age 18. And if minority students don’t make that high level, it’s okay. It doesn’t mean they’ll be failures in life.
I’ve held a job in an artistic field that I absolutely loved. How many people can say they LOVE their job? We’re not rolling in money - in fact we’re hurting due to extended Covid shutdowns - but I have a great life. Four amazing kids, a caring husband, good health for all, volunteer work, coaching kids...
Not being in a gifted program isn’t the end of the world.
I am not a 1%er either. average grades, graduated HS, Army, then a trade school(also Art related). Similar to you, wife, kid, home,..awesome neighborhood and school district. doing great. I am lucky enough to barely be interrupted by Covid as I can work from home.
But I still wouldn't think doing away with exams or aptitude standards based on some 'racist' notion.
Go ahead and lower them, my kid will stand out that much more. Employers will always find the better employee despite some piece of paper.
Could have but I am a 1%. Suffering the unable is considered bad form. And yes I guessed what you meant. But why should I do that? Better to invite you to express your though in reasonable English.
Not really hard if you think before you post.
He said he was distracted or can't you read, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what he said.
I was wondering myself what a non-Chinese Asian person had to do to get ahead in China. I imagine under the left's "antiracism" policy white and conservative Americans will end up something like the uyghurs.
I was wondering myself what a non-Chinese Asian person had to do to get ahead in China. I imagine under the left's "antiracism" policy white and conservative Americans will end up something like the uyghurs.
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I hope not.
Locally? probably not much,. Especially if you don't speak it. English teacher?
The biggest opening would be to find a job in some International business company there. Trade,import/export.
They'll have a mix of non-Chinese that you can get into.
Honors programs is probably a good place to draw the line on ethnic quotas. If students can't make the cut, then they need to work out how to bring them up to snuff rather than holding the top students back.
that isn't how the left does anything.
the mantra of the left is to punish the good for the sake of the bad. its always been that way
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