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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.  [b]While the school overall is 40% Asian, the advanced math classes will have a much larger percent of Asian students. [/b] 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.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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 [b]but some groups are clannish (hello immigrants)[/b] 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. [/quote]

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 [/quote]

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