Originally Posted by Bostonian
[quote=HowlerKarma] That is a negative way of putting it. "Tiger Parents" may refer to hothousing parents in general, but I think it also carries an ethnic connotation. At the math camps and after-school programs such as Russian School of Math that my children attend, there are indeed more Asians (both East Asian and South Asian) than whites, and the white children disproportionately have immigrant parents. The math studied is harder than that taught in the public schools. Is this "pampering"? Or is it sustained hard work leading to success?

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