What is it like sending your DC to a majority/plurality asian school?(Churchill/Wootton area)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

BTW - USA is not the homeland of Whites. It is the home land of Native Americans. So it is appropriate that some of the original inhabitants of the land are returning back to it from south america.

Actually, Native Americans are mostly descendants of Asians.

Yes, 20,000+ years ago. And Asians (and everybody else) are descendants of Africans, 50,000+ years ago. And North America, Asia, and Africa were all the same continent, as recently as 175 million years ago.

Is that really relevant to the discussion on this thread? I don't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

1. MoCo is not inner city
2. not sure why this thread involves African Americans
3. There are many African Americans who treat other poor minorities horribly, too -- case in point: the black woman in CA who assaulted a 91 year old Hispanic man yelling at him to go back to his own country, though he's a legal resident here. As poorly as some Asian immigrants treat poor black people, they don't generally go around assaulting them.

Because the "your" in the OP's (silly) question "What is it like sending your DC to a majority/plurality asian school? (Churchill/Wootton area)" can apply to parents of children who are African-American, just as much as to parents of children who are anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

1. MoCo is not inner city
2. not sure why this thread involves African Americans
3. There are many African Americans who treat other poor minorities horribly, too -- case in point: the black woman in CA who assaulted a 91 year old Hispanic man yelling at him to go back to his own country, though he's a legal resident here. As poorly as some Asian immigrants treat poor black people, they don't generally go around assaulting them.

1. Try reading more closely.

2. If you think this thread is only about Whites in a plurality Asian School, you have big problems.

3. No one said that African Americans don’t ever discriminate, but it was alleged that Asians aren’t ever racist toward blacks, which is simply not true.

[Anonymous]

OP never said how do whites feel in these schools, they asked all races. And they didn't ask what it is like, but if it makes a difference in the school environment. Stop trying to make something out of nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

1. MoCo is not inner city
2. not sure why this thread involves African Americans
3. There are many African Americans who treat other poor minorities horribly, too -- case in point: the black woman in CA who assaulted a 91 year old Hispanic man yelling at him to go back to his own country, though he's a legal resident here. As poorly as some Asian immigrants treat poor black people, they don't generally go around assaulting them.

1. Try reading more closely.

2. If you think this thread is only about Whites in a plurality Asian School, you have big problems.

3. No one said that African Americans don’t ever discriminate, but it was alleged that Asians aren’t ever racist toward blacks, which is simply not true.

That's not true either. It was stated by individual posters that they teach their kids about social justice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the posters flaming about AA and Asians, please get your head out of the ivory tower and look at how Asian immigrants treated AA customers in inner city neighborhoods as close by as Baltimore. My family is mixed race AA. I have many uncles and male cousins who married Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipina women while in the military. All provided a good introduction to Asian cultures for my family, but were deeply ashamed of how the Asian immigrant community treated poor blacks and frustration at what their DH and half-black DC face.

1. MoCo is not inner city
2. not sure why this thread involves African Americans
3. There are many African Americans who treat other poor minorities horribly, too -- case in point: the black woman in CA who assaulted a 91 year old Hispanic man yelling at him to go back to his own country, though he's a legal resident here. As poorly as some Asian immigrants treat poor black people, they don't generally go around assaulting them.

1. Try reading more closely.

2. If you think this thread is only about Whites in a plurality Asian School, you have big problems.

3. No one said that African Americans don’t ever discriminate, but it was alleged that Asians aren’t ever racist toward blacks, which is simply not true.

Given that Churchill and Wootton both have a tiny % of African Americans, it's not hard to assume that OP is not African American. I don't know.. maybe OP is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Given that Churchill and Wootton both have a tiny % of African Americans, it's not hard to assume that OP is not African American. I don't know.. maybe OP is.

OP didn't ask what it's like to send your child to a majority/plurality asian school if you're white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Given that Churchill and Wootton both have a tiny % of African Americans, it's not hard to assume that OP is not African American. I don't know.. maybe OP is.

OP didn't ask what it's like to send your child to a majority/plurality asian school if you're white.

Exactly. Other people will read this thread. People who are AA or who are white but have AA children.

[Anonymous]

While everyone's experience is unique, here is what I noticed:

1. Asian American parents do not generally view a STEM classroom as a place where a child learns; rather, they expect a child to study ahead and REVIEW in a math / science classroom. While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. Most of them will be reviewing the material, not learning it for the first time. If you do not naturally come from that tradition, you need to plan accordingly.

2. If your child is a good student, he/she needs to be very comfortable being possibly the only non-Asian student in a class or (more commonly) an academic extracurricular activity, such as math team, physics team, orroboytics team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While everyone's experience is unique, here is what I noticed:

1. Asian American parents do not generally view a STEM classroom as a place where a child learns; rather, they expect a child to study ahead and REVIEW in a math / science classroom. While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. Most of them will be reviewing the material, not learning it for the first time. If you do not naturally come from that tradition, you need to plan accordingly.

2. If your child is a good student, he/she needs to be very comfortable being possibly the only non-Asian student in a class or (more commonly) an academic extracurricular activity, such as math team, physics team, orroboytics team.

I was just about to write the same thing. My son was the only non-Asian in his AP science class last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While everyone's experience is unique, here is what I noticed:

1. Asian American parents do not generally view a STEM classroom as a place where a child learns; rather, they expect a child to study ahead and REVIEW in a math / science classroom. While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. Most of them will be reviewing the material, not learning it for the first time. If you do not naturally come from that tradition, you need to plan accordingly.

2. If your child is a good student, he/she needs to be very comfortable being possibly the only non-Asian student in a class or (more commonly) an academic extracurricular activity, such as math team, physics team, orroboytics team.

I was just about to write the same thing. My son was the only non-Asian in his AP science class last year.

So??? Why does that matter? I have never even thought to ask the racial makeup of the kids in my child's classes at Churchill and my child never thought to tell me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While everyone's experience is unique, here is what I noticed:

1. Asian American parents do not generally view a STEM classroom as a place where a child learns; rather, they expect a child to study ahead and REVIEW in a math / science classroom. While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. Most of them will be reviewing the material, not learning it for the first time. If you do not naturally come from that tradition, you need to plan accordingly.

2. If your child is a good student, he/she needs to be very comfortable being possibly the only non-Asian student in a class or (more commonly) an academic extracurricular activity, such as math team, physics team, orroboytics team.

I was just about to write the same thing. My son was the only non-Asian in his AP science class last year.

So??? Why does that matter? I have never even thought to ask the racial makeup of the kids in my child's classes at Churchill and my child never thought to tell me.

You have lived a privileged life if you've never felt uncomfortable because you were the "only" in a classroom or an office.

Back on topic. As an AA with bi-racial kids, I would want to know the racial/ethnic makeup of these schools and how such makeup affects the social atmosphere. It's great to hear that some parents are teaching their children about social justice but some groups are clannish (hello immigrants) and if you don't speak their language or look like them, your child will become the lone wolf. It's just how it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While everyone's experience is unique, here is what I noticed:

1. Asian American parents do not generally view a STEM classroom as a place where a child learns; rather, they expect a child to study ahead and REVIEW in a math / science classroom. While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. Most of them will be reviewing the material, not learning it for the first time. If you do not naturally come from that tradition, you need to plan accordingly.

2. If your child is a good student, he/she needs to be very comfortable being possibly the only non-Asian student in a class or (more commonly) an academic extracurricular activity, such as math team, physics team, orroboytics team.

I was just about to write the same thing. My son was the only non-Asian in his AP science class last year.

So??? Why does that matter? I have never even thought to ask the racial makeup of the kids in my child's classes at Churchill and my child never thought to tell me.

It matters because at those schools, a non-Asian child will need to be comfortable being different, especially if they intend to excel in STEM. It is actually a stellar life skill. It is not at all a negative. But if a child says to himself that a particular class or activity is only appropriate for Asians to pursue, that child will miss on the exact academic opportunites that the parents are killing themselves paying their mortgages for. It is very natural for any child to feel uncomfortable being the only person of different heritage in a room of 30, 40, 50 peers. That discomfort must be eradicated, and that - unlike learning physics or calculus - must come from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While everyone's experience is unique, here is what I noticed:

1. Asian American parents do not generally view a STEM classroom as a place where a child learns; rather, they expect a child to study ahead and REVIEW in a math / science classroom. While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. Most of them will be reviewing the material, not learning it for the first time. If you do not naturally come from that tradition, you need to plan accordingly.

2. If your child is a good student, he/she needs to be very comfortable being possibly the only non-Asian student in a class or (more commonly) an academic extracurricular activity, such as math team, physics team, orroboytics team.

I was just about to write the same thing. My son was the only non-Asian in his AP science class last year.

So??? Why does that matter? I have never even thought to ask the racial makeup of the kids in my child's classes at Churchill and my child never thought to tell me.

You have lived a privileged life if you've never felt uncomfortable because you were the "only" in a classroom or an office.

Back on topic. As an AA with bi-racial kids, I would want to know the racial/ethnic makeup of these schools and how such makeup affects the social atmosphere. It's great to hear that some parents are teaching their children about social justice but some groups are clannish (hello immigrants) and if you don't speak their language or look like them, your child will become the lone wolf. It's just how it is.

Wow, just wow. Are you sure you don't want to restate what you said? I'm pretty sure that this is an issue with ALL groups; non-immigrants included. There are some people in ALL groups who are clannish but there are also people within those groups who are not. Signed, Filipino American

[Anonymous]

This entire thread is extremely racist