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I feel really sorry for her parents. However your sympathy stems from ignorance of the Indian sub-continent. Middle class kids in India, and I assume Pakistan h
by harichinnan 15y ago
I feel really sorry for her parents. However your sympathy stems from ignorance of the Indian sub-continent. Middle class kids in India, and I assume Pakistan have the opposite problem of what you say. They are pressured into achieving academic success come what may. The Indian IITs select .5% of the applicants. Delhi university sometimes rejects applicants getting 98% in school because there are many who get even more. Many of them go through multiple "coaching/tuition" classes in addition to going to school. Celebrating someone for obtaining an MCP certificate in addition to grueling coursework actually has a negative effect on already over-burdened kids.
- suhastech 15y agoI definitely agree. I always get yelled at by my parents because I do a lot of computer programming instead of studying. There's minimal encouragement in this society and I've seen parents pushing kids to get into CS because it pays. Environment has lot to do in making a "genius". And maybe that's why we have crappy programmers here, in India, and the deviants are pulled into the stereotype. Assuming Pakistan is similar to India, this girl programming at such a young age is definitely a great deal. I don't think people in the first world nations understand this.