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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]^ Disagree completely!!  Where's the racism in the Indian immigrant parent's statement?  He's a member of a minority group himself. Your knee-jerk reaction is oozes jealousy.  There's a reason that NYC's famous academic magnet high schools--all eight of them-are majority Asian in a city that's less than 10% Asian and it's not because these families aren't serious about education and achievement.

Until parents, politicians, education reform leaders engage in a frank debate about what it's going to take to attract most of the strongest DCPS and DC Charter ES students to middle schools and high schools, city schools will continue to suffer from a brain drain of the brightest, best-prepared and more disciplined students to the burbs and privates.

I'd love to see more Asians immigrant families get involved at Basis - I hear that there is only one in my kid's 5th grade class, which probably doesn't bode all that well for the HS program.  This parent is surely heading to a MoCo school that's at least 20% Asian, where loads of kids get to five-star colleges, not just a few every year as at Latin so far.  Please stick around, mate!  We need you and your ilk bigtime.

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Please don't sock puppet. If you want to express views based on racial, ethnic, and political stereotypes, stand up and do it. Don't rely on sock puppetting to give the false impression that your views have additional support.

BASIS folks, I've been a critic of some of your boosterism. I probably will remain a critic until I am satisfied the boosterism is grounded in fact and not fantasy. But, you really don't deserve the kind of crap being dumped on you in this forum. I'll try to do a better job stopping it.
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