I don’t think public school is a tenable option for kids who don’t speak Chinese very well. I started the Kuei Shan thread for a reason, but Chinese will be an issue there. My kids are leaving TAS at the end of the year though, one way or another.
I thought you were being serious, what’s the “joke”?
There are a couple of French girls in my son’s class, grade 3 at public school. Their father is the nomadic expat type, so they arrived with no Chinese at all, and seem to be doing just fine. Their Chinese certainly hasn’t caught up to the grade level, but it’s improving rapidly, and the school makes allowances.
Also they’re not surrounded completely by spoiled rich local kids, which honestly I think is more important than anything else.
Sure, but there was a platform switch around the turn of the 20th century. Back when Jim Crow laws were being passed, the Democrats opposed expansion of federal powers and the South was solidly Democrat.
I guess the joke was that it’s an option for parents in the US who can’t homeschool. Which it isn’t. My point, if I had one, was that kids who go to TAS certainly don’t go there because their parents can’t afford other options.
The kids my kids bring home for play dates, whether Japanese, American, Chinese, or Taiwanese, have been polite, intelligent, and kind. I have no issues there.
Then that probably reflects more on your kids’ taste in friends than anything else, because it certainly doesn’t match the reputation of TAS kids in general (or the adults they become, in my own experience).
I think @mithrandir’s kids are pretty young, maybe you didn’t realize. But his experience matches my own even on into older years. There are some cliques and stuff that matches the stereotypes, but that’s pretty true anywhere. I know several who have grown into fine adults 
ok, I’m a simple person, I think Taiwanese schools do an ok job.
Sorry for not understanding TAS or social norms.
I agree! My kid goes to local school and I’m very happy with it. I wasn’t knocking them.
Can you point to the document that the Republicans adopted which said “Now the KKK belongs to us!”? No? Wow, golly, then that must be complete bullshit made up by the Democrats to try to hide their nearly-two-centuries-long history of blatant racism.
Like in the 1940s when Robert Byrd (later Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.) “recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia” and wrote to a sitting senator that “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
Or when Senator Byrd (D-W.Va.) filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
But I guess he must have secretly been a Republican somehow? Or, no, maybe he was just a racist old Democrat like all the other Democrats who were blocking passage of the CRA.
I’ve heard lots of negative things about TAS kids, some on this board. My experience does not match those. Perhaps the issues develop as the kids get older, but I haven’t seen anything problematic with the kids at TAS so far.
Perhaps TWT meant “the turn of the 21st century” seeing as Jim Crow laws, the KKK, Japanese internment, opposition to civil rights laws of the 50s and 60s, and opposition to women’s suffrage were all led by and primarily found in the Democrat Party and the mythical “party switch” didn’t happen until the mid 60’s and beyond.
Depends what you mean by just fine. They survive. My kid is in public school and most of the other mixed/foreign kids were struggling. She weirdly had so many in her class that I suspected they were lumping them together. They all, apart from my daughter, had to leave class to go and take extra Chinese classes. They still failed, by Taiwanese standards, their tests. Now some would say the tests are bs but when youre a kid, it is hard to be bottom of the class. My daughter ended up being a interpreter for one girl who came in third grade because the teacher felt like it was too hard to explain again and again in Chinese.
Interesting. Makes me wonder if the French girls are in my son’s class because he’s bilingual. They also have a teacher who speaks pretty good English, whereas his teacher in grade 2 didn’t speak a word.
Maybe started around the turn of the century would have been better.
Clearly, the platforms of both parties have changed over the past hundred plus years. I’d suggest a conversation without sarcasm, but this is probably getting off topic.
And I’d prefer a conversation without Democrats constantly lying about and trying to hide their racism and bury their long history of blatant racist behavior while painting Republicans as “systemically racist Nazis” but it doesn’t look like that will ever happen.
Am I missing the link of this discussion with TAS?
