He says that parents also push their children and the teachers for good grades.

"That's why parents push their children onto the waiting list."

If a student comes home with a poor grade in math, he said, the parents push the child to work harder.

And he often wondered if that was part of the reason his parents had pushed it there.

At least one science teacher said he believed that immigrant parents push their children harder.

Most people just grow up and accept the propaganda that their parents pushed on them.

Her parents never finished high school but pushed education on their three children.

"My parents haven't pushed the marriage and children thing," she said.

"But if the parents push us into it, there's nobody I'd rather have."

There are some kids here because their parents have pushed them.