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[quote=Anonymous]I’m at a private school with asian child and it’s the same situation. It’s not one person trying to take down publics but rather many people telling their school’s truth. At our peer schools, as soon as the schools become 30-40% Asian, they fall out of favor and quickly lose white applicants. And then the school takes more asian students or if they have an upper school they take even international students  to survive, and everyone stays away because “it’s the asian school.”

In my personal experience, the kids at my child’s k-8 who are white are chosen more for teacher-selected leadership positions, allowed more leeway for bad behavior, and given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to academics. The Asian kids-
especially the girls- are expected to be good little soldiers and not rock the boat. When my daughter’s white bully was having a hard time socially and lashing out at other kids, she was given special sessions with the school counselors and the teacher chastised the girls she bullied when they mandated mediation sessions. When my daughter had reported the bullying, the teacher admonished her to focus on herself, try to work out her problems with the bully and not just run to adults, not be a tattle tale, etc. The lowest point that told me my daughter would always be invisible to the people in power was last winter. Multiple administrators and teachers who had known our family since kindergarten asked if my DD was playing violin in the talent show.

She’s been at the school for 5 years. She does not play any instrument. She gets signed out regularly for travel events for her sport so it’s known in writing how she spends massive chunks of her time. At that point I realized that they sincerely believed she was one of the other Asian girls in the grade. And probably had for a while.

Read “Race on the top” which is a really illuminating book about how this situation comes to be and the tensions between Asian and whites parents. [/quote]

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