By Grace Hwang Lynch, Mom.Me
I was sitting in the stands at a kids’ sporting event the other day when I overhead bits of a conversation between some other parents:
A boy, aided by his father, practices heading a football at a park. (PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images)
“That school is too competitive. All they care about is grades.”
“They don’t do well in football. Ping-pong or chess, maybe!”
“Even in preschool, they teach Chinese. We don’t need that.”
Those remarks caught me off-guard. It was a weekend, and I just wanted to relax and watch my son’s game. At the moment, I didn’t know what to say, but I can tell you that I felt distinctly uncomfortable.
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