Why Daniel will love his new school

Catherine has a friend, Gina. One day she was telling Catherine on the phone that she had lost her learner's permit. Catherine was relaying this to me and told me how she had said to Gina, "well, that can happen." To which Gina replied, "You don't understand. You don't have Asian parents. This is a disaster." Tonight I drove Gina home across the valley. I asked how her parents had decided to bring their kids over to school here and she said that someone had told her dad (first generation) which schools were best and so they just committed to the commute. Every day her mom gets home at 3am from her job at a bakery, sleeps for three hours and then gets up and drives the three kids across town to school. Dad picks them up in the late afternoon after mom has gone back to work and he is done with his work shift. And I grumble about the occasional school run that takes me 10 minutes total...