Some of those parents work doing manicures and pedicures. They will spend the money on math programs but do without so their kids accel and don't have to do the same. It is all about priorities with immigrants.
I'd need to see statistics on this claim. What percentage is "some?"
What difference does it make what the percentage is?
The claim is that hard work is resulting in advantages to the kids. My counterpoint is that parental ability to pay has a lot to do with it (hence, pampering/primping/hothousing).
I have no doubt that there some people who send their kids to academic tutoring centers of one kind or another have incomes that are low
compared to the average in that particular group. But that doesn't make them truly low-income. Truly low-income people don't have that kind of money, full stop. And they can't take time off work to drive their kids to these places.
Let's not lose sight of HowlerKarma's original point, which was that a lot of the kids competing for merit-based scholarship money are generally pretty privileged kids.
