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[quote=Anonymous]I live in MD and my Asian kids went to a magnet there.

Following the trials and tribulations of TJ, it's very apparent to me that high-performing Asians will be under the societal microscope for our generation and the next, and subject to more pressure than any other high-performing groups. We are continually accused of being robots who prep - as if preparing a child with average capabilities will ever get them into a magnet! There is a severe lack of understanding in the general population, and sadly on school boards as well, regarding the limits of academic preparation, and there is just enough racial animus as to make reasonable people, who otherwise wouldn't have bothered about test prep issues, to claim that Asians who prep pose an equity risk for this school, as well as other magnets and even college (although this last is strenuously denied, it's rather obvious).

Academic magnets should remain focused on test scores, grades and other measures of intellectual rigor. There is a place for giving a leg up to historically-oppressed minorities (and some Asians could qualify, but that's roundly ignored by all), but that place is not in academic magnet admissions... or indeed, in any university who bills itself as a top academic institution.

When favoring one group over another, it's just too easy to switch from one racism to another.
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