The teacher didn’t even bother looking at Lenora as she calmly explained that eggs are healthy and that it was important for children to eat them. Lenora demanded to know if Rainey was telling the truth – was this teacher literally forcing food into her three-year-old son’s mouth and verbally berating him until he ate it. Outraged, Lenora stormed to the school the next day and approached the teacher in the morning as she dropped Rainey off. This cycle would repeat 3-5 times with louder yelling from the teacher each time until Rainey surrendered and ate the egg. When Rainey spit the egg out (as he always did), the teacher would do the same thing. When Rainey refused (as he always did), the teacher would grab the egg and shove it in his mouth. By his telling, every day at school, Rainey’s teacher would pass hardboiled eggs to all students and order them to eat. But somehow he was eating them at school.Īfter much coaxing (three-year-olds aren’t especially articulate), Lenora discovered that Rainey was being force-fed eggs. This puzzled Lenora because as far as she knew, Rainey refused to eat eggs and never did so at home. Like the lunches:ĭuring his first week at Soong Qing Ling, Rainey began complaining to his mom about eating eggs. The book is about her experiences there and what it taught her about various aspects of Chinese education. She wants their three-year-old son to be bilingual/bicultural, so she enrolls him in Soong Qing Ling, the Harvard of Chinese preschools. Her husband (a white guy named Rob) gets a job in China, so they move to Shanghai. She is grown up, married, and has a three year old child. She resisted and resented the hell she was forced to go through (though she got into Stanford, so she couldn’t have resisted too hard). Her parents made her work herself to the bone to get perfect grades in school, practice piano, get into Ivy League schools, etc. ![]() This is a review of Dormin111’s review of Little Soldiers.ĭormin describes the “plot”: The author is a second-generation Chinese-American woman, raised by demanding Asian parents. Little Soldiers is a book by Lenora Chu about the Chinese education system.
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