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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a school with a significant percentage of Asian-American students but mostly white teachers. We've noticed over the past year that when teachers have a choice to choose students for leadership positions such as for panels, if they have a request from an outside entity for students to speak with, student hosts for assemblies, or for leaders for class project they are not selecting AAPI students. It's really striking and when parents first brought this up to us I was skeptical but then we saw it happen again and again. They will choose students from other minority groups who comprise only a small percentage of students at the school so it is not all white students who are being chosen.

We moved to the area from California where we were at a school with a similar percentage of AAPI students and did not see this issue. What is going on? Is it just gross stereotyping that AAPI students are not good leaders or speakers? Are we just at a terrible school?[/quote]

You are overthinking this.  I’m so tired of these flimsy, racist threads.

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It's a popular topic with right-wing astroturfers. They feel they can sew grievance among AAPI voters with these false narratives.[/quote]

Maybe so, but your bias is also showing. These right wingers have a point, beyond sowing discord, in that Asian students have shown to been, in some cases, to have been denied or socially engineered out of contention for placement at top schools. See the lower scores on “personality tests” at Harvard as an example.

It’s sad that the same folks who claim to want broad representation in schools have no issue suppressing advanced level Asian students because they don’t fear any repercussions or see Asians as some model minority who would “make it anyway” if they didn’t get in to the academically rigorous school of their choice or whatever. I mean it just seems like social engineering on so many levers, like doing away with race neutral standardized testing for entry, which really is the best predictor of a student’s ability.[/quote]

I think it's ridiculous to lump "Asian students" together as a monolith. Asia is so huge and diverse that, even in the U.S., the experience of various Asian groups is going to have so many variables that their treatment is going to vary wildly. [/quote]

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