Thursday, September 22, 2005
Damn asians
The problem with asian parents is that when they take over education, their kids are at an educational level with most college students at about half the age.
Black says despite the fact that students like the Pierces are much younger than the average applicant, they are evaluated on their motivation to learn just as other applicants are.
"You can't really consider the application of a 12-year-old like everyone else, but plainly these students have done very well with the opportunities available to them," Black says.
Do those paragraphs seem a bit... contradictory to anyone?
"They understood the other option," says their father, UC Berkeley alumnus Wincie Pierce, of his children's choice not to attend high school. "It'd be pretty boring, as I suspect it is for most kids around."
Pierce says the family opted for home schooling to help Charlie and Mayumi reach their full potential.
"I went to third and fourth grade in regular school," Mayumi says. "It was fun but I just wasn't learning enough."
Pop: Yeah, high school is pretty boring.
Kid: Yeah, high school was pretty fun.
Once again, the generations understand each other.
"It's harder than community college," says Mayumi. "But it's been interesting, in a good way."
What isn't harder than community college?
The Pierce siblings also say they do not regret entering college early and that they have friends their own age at home in nearby San Pablo, where they are also involved in orchestra and martial arts.
Hmm... they'll be professors teaching their friends of the same age, if I'm calculating this right.
I was also somewhat young on the way in (not as young as these dudes, though). It didn't make the slightest difference, except for how long I had to ask friends to buy me booze.
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