Yes, there are foreign standards. What’s required of a schoolkid to get into one of these schools in terms of scores and grades creeps ever upward... Because foreign parents are willing to sacrifice their kids’ childhoods so they can beat out your kid for that slot. So drill, study, no play, no baseball — that is a FOREIGN culture.
These kids aren’t more deserving of those schools , any more than an athlete who takes steroids deserves the prize more than the one who doesn’t.
Steroids are gaming the system. Chinese study camps for children are gaming the system. Foreign cultures have suckered us into thinking their way is the “fair” way for one reason — to ensure that the kids in their tribe win. They get their way. And American taxpayers who won’t put their kids through that brutal system to gain admittance have to shut up and take it.
American parents need to redevelop their own self interest and start looking after their kid’s interests.
The diligence and discipline of some kids from Chinese families is not that different than the traditional Protestant work ethic.
Your complaints sound like sour grapes, based on racial animosity.
Sounds like liberals complaining about “white privilege” but this would be Chinese privilege.
And, Whites are also overrepresented in these schools because the kids do well on the tests, not just Asians.