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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian families prioritize high-performing schools over diverse schools everywhere they live in this country. The fact that few DCPS and DCPCS middle and high schools can attract any should be a wake-up call to all stakeholders.[/quote]

no stereotyping or anything.[/quote]. Are you a first or 2nd gen Asian immigrant? If not, pipe down. What do you know about the stereotyping of Asians in this country. Racism bothers us little.  As an immigrant group, we’re more focused on academic achievement than any other. [b]DC public schools are too political for almost all is us past elementary in Upper NW and Cap Hill. [/b] The rigor, challenge and respect for Asian cultures and languages just isn’t there. Even BASIS and Walls struggle to attract Asian families.[/quote]

Can you expound on this? It's continually frustrating that all DE&I efforts seem to focus on AAs and gay people.[/quote]

I'll give you an example. There's no DC public MS or HS that teaches Asian languages to an advanced level. Almost every UMC friendly option pushes Spanish, Latin or beginning Chinese on your kid.  Wait a minute, you say, what about YuYing and DCI?  The truth is that their Mandarin programs are weak to the point of being laughable. There are essentially no native speakers and very few parents supplement for Chinese seriously, so standards for speaking are abysmal.  At BASIS, students can't even study Chinese until 8th grade and native speakers of tough Asian languages are forced to choose between studying a new language from 8th grade or taking beginning Chinese, even if they're already fluent (all but ensuring that native speakers will wind up weak in both the new language and Chinese, which requires the learning of 3000+ characters for basic literacy).

In the DC burbs, middle schools and high schools celebrate and support Asian immigrants who excel at learning their own languages, or at least leave them alone to get on with it.  There are schools in Fairfax teaching half a dozen Asian languages to an advanced level, a year or two past AP study. In DC public schools, we're just not very welcome past elementary, explaining why there are so few of us.[/quote]

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