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It’s very misleading to say that Asian students are more ‘intelligent’ when achievement and intelligence are two different things. If you weren’t taught certain things, or your school is behind, it doesn’t make you dumber than the kid who was already exposed to the concept. Consider this. I teach in Houston, and we have had a large number of students coming in from New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana thanks to the hurricane. My students from LA are perfectly capable of doing their work, but they did come to us behind because, to quote a coworker who is also from NOLA, ‘the schools there SUCK.’ So it’s a different system that create different results. I’ve been to a Japanese school, and the behavior of students between classes is appalling. But they are essentially trained in how to be successful students, and there is much more shame in failure. Also consider that schools in Japan, at least, do not get a full summer off. They have about a month off in the spring, I believe. So they are getting ahead of other 9th graders, for example, who are going to fewer months of school.

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Name : Chibi20815, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Age : 28, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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