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Shitty parenting 101. I have been there and I broke down at minor setbacks. I lost my mind because of the smallest failures.
If you do this to your child, in your delusion you are doing the right thing, fuck you.
Haven't studies shown a pretty strong correlation between scores and future income in China?
FWIW, it's not like that culture is new. The increase in suicide rates has other drivers. I think it's far more likely to be driven by social media and social isolation than by academic pressure (which has existed to a similar degree for the past few decades).
Let's not forget the pandemic that they took seriously, saving millions of lives, caused a lot of trauma to a whole generation and kids are vulnerable to that sort of thing.
Absolutely. Harsh lockdown policies reduce real social interactions and meaningfully affect mental health. In America, this is reflected in the absolutely dogshit quality of drivers today.