My Filipino bud who’s in my circle is sending his daughter back to the Philippines to continue her studies. In her school, the pc-ness was nauseating.
The flag ceremony starts in spanish with no English TL for the rest of the Asian students. There’s no such thing as ‘top students’ as everyone should be “equal” and no one can stand when you have the answer to the teacher’s question as it will “insult” the stupid kids in the class.
It was explained that in the Phil, everyone has a school uniform from kindergarten to grade to high school, very structured and discilpines and is the total reverse of American p[ublic HS. Everyone competes in each class for top honors and pc-ness is non-existent. You know it’s bad when a parent is sending his/her kid to a 3rd world country for better schooling...
When we get Asian and Filipino students, they are uniformly more advanced than the local population. I mean, light years beyond them in attitude, work ethic, organization, attention span, skills, intelligence... (oops, not supposed to say "intelligence" anymore. It's a no-no word. Almost as offensive as the N-word.)
These poor kids always spend the first few months kind of looking around like "We left my country for THIS?" It's really sad.