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Re:I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers by watwut on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:14PM (#39421460)
The article characterizes them as elite students, so you then need to compare them to elite American students. Elite as in highly performing in school and motivated.
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Re:I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers by em500 on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:16PM (#39424037)
True, the author is teaching at an elite Beijing high school. But elite American high schools are usually disproportionally populated with Asian (an very often Chinese) students.
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