Tiger Mother parenting style gets boost in stupid economic study

The Tiger Mother fad just won’t die. Just when you thought the hype over Yale prof Amy Chua’s controversial bestseller, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother—which detailed the strict upbringing she gave her two daughters—was over, a study comes out claiming “statistics back up that stereotype [of the of Asian academic success]”.

According to an article in Science Daily, Valerie Ramey, a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, found that “Asian high-school students spend significantly more time studying and doing homework”¦than any other ethnic or racial group. Averaged over the entire year (including summer vacations), the average, non-Hispanic white student spends 5.5 hours per week studying and doing homework, while Hispanic and non-Hispanic black students spend even less. In contrast, the average Asian student spends a whopping 13 hours per week.”

Okay, can we get another professor somewhere to explain exactly what the point of these racially tinged studies is before I go all Jewish Mother on someone’s ass? (I won’t deprive you of sleepovers, but I will make you feel guilty about EVERYTHING.)