Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
There are many things the Chinese do differently from Westerners. There__ the question of extra credit, for example. One time, Lulu came home and told me about a math test she__ just taken. She said she thought it had gone extremely well, which is why she didn__ feel the need to do the extra-credit problems.I was speechless for a second, uncomprehending. __hy not?_ I asked. __hy didn__ you do them?___ didn__ want to miss recess.__ fundamental tenet of being Chinese is that you always do all of the extra credit all of the time.__hy?_ asked Lulu, when I explained this to her.For me this was like asking why I should breathe.__one of my friends do it,_ Lulu added.__hat__ not true,_ I said. ____ 100% sure that Amy and Junno did the extra credit._ Amy and Junno were the Asian kids in Lulu__ class. And I was right about them; Lulu admitted it.__ut Rashad and Ian did the extra credit too, and they__e not Asian,_ she added.__ha! So many of your friends did do the extra credit! And I didn__ say only Asians do extra credit. Anyone with good parents knows you have to do the extra credit. I__ in shock, Lulu. What will the teacher think of you? You went to recess instead of doing extra credit?_ I was almost in tears. __xtra credit is not extra. It__ just credit. It__ what separates the good students from the bad students.""Aww - recess is so fun," Lulu offered as her final sally. But after that, Lulu, like Sophia. always did the extra credit. Sometimes the girls got more points on extra credit than on the test itself - an absurdity that would never happen in China. Extra credit is one reason that Asian kids get such notoriously good grades in the United States.Rote drilling is another. Once Sophia came in second on a multiplication speed test, which her fifth grade teacher administered every Friday. She lost to a Korean boy named Yoon-seok. Over the next week, I made Sophia do twenty practice tests (of 100 problems each) every night, with me clocking her with a stopwatch. After that, she came in first every time. Poor Yoon-seok. He went back to Korea with his family, but probably not because of the speed test.
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There are many things the Chinese do differently from Westerners. There__ the question of extra credit, for example. One time, Lulu came home and told me about a math test she__ just taken. She said she thought it had gone extremely well, which is why she didn__ feel the need to do the extra-credit problems.I was speechless for a second, uncomprehending. __hy not?_ I asked. __hy didn__ you do them?___ didn__ want to miss recess.__ fundamental tenet of being Chinese is that you always do all of the extra credit all of the time.__hy?_ asked Lulu, when I explained this to her.For me this was like asking why I should breathe.__one of my friends do it,_ Lulu added.__hat__ not true,_ I said. ____ 100% sure that Amy and Junno did the extra credit._ Amy and Junno were the Asian kids in Lulu__ class. And I was right about them; Lulu admitted it.__ut Rashad and Ian did the extra credit too, and they__e not Asian,_ she added.__ha! So many of your friends did do the extra credit! And I didn__ say only Asians do extra credit. Anyone with good parents knows you have to do the extra credit. I__ in shock, Lulu. What will the teacher think of you? You went to recess instead of doing extra credit?_ I was almost in tears. __xtra credit is not extra. It__ just credit. It__ what separates the good students from the bad students.""Aww - recess is so fun," Lulu offered as her final sally. But after that, Lulu, like Sophia. always did the extra credit. Sometimes the girls got more points on extra credit than on the test itself - an absurdity that would never happen in China. Extra credit is one reason that Asian kids get such notoriously good grades in the United States.Rote drilling is another. Once Sophia came in second on a multiplication speed test, which her fifth grade teacher administered every Friday. She lost to a Korean boy named Yoon-seok. Over the next week, I made Sophia do twenty practice tests (of 100 problems each) every night, with me clocking her with a stopwatch. After that, she came in first every time. Poor Yoon-seok. He went back to Korea with his family, but probably not because of the speed test.
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