Highest East Asian population in FCPS schools

[Anonymous]

South Asian caste system is alive and well thanks to corporate corruption with H1B visas.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Just reviving instead of starting a new thread. Does anyone know if Woodson or Oakton has south asian (from India) students.

Great schools just lists asians which could be east asian. Spouse is south asian and it would be great for our kids to have friends from the same culture.

I know McLean does. Langley has fewer (my cousin's daughter studies there and shared). Both out of our budget.

TIA. I hope I won't be attacked for this question.

There is a big difference between East Asian and South Asians and even among South Asians, different countries as I think you may know, are not just not friends, there are major issues between them so what you really want to know is where are the Indian students and PPs are clubbing all Asians together like Fairfax county does. Unless someone has personal experience it is hard to know so that's understandable.

You want LCPS. In Fairfax, your best bet is Chantilly (Centerville and Fairfax are not that good in terms of ranking) since your family can't do Langley and Mclean. There are some in Oakton. Woodson has more East Asians.

Too thrilled to have imported lots of people who bring their political/religious/cultural grudges with them and keep the beef alive!

I am S Asian, and honestly this isn’t the case IME. It’s either kids who are happy to find common cultural ground, even if their native countries don’t get along, or kids who want to hang out with people who speak the same language or maybe really religious kids who wants friends who are the same. I do not see that suburban kids are bringing their parents’ geo-political struggles to school. I’m not sure if this poster is somewhere else or just wanted to bring in their knowledge of world politics.

Agreed. I don’t see this amongst my children’s friends who are South Asian but from different parts.

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My kid goes to Chantilly HS. In his AP classes, he is sometimes the only white kid (or maybe 1 of 3) in there. The majority is Asian, and I would hazard to guess it is more South Asian than East Asian, but not by too much. Maybe 60/40 split?