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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It matters because at those schools, a non-Asian child will need to be comfortable being different, especially if they intend to excel in STEM. It is actually a stellar life skill.  It is not at all a negative.  But if a child says to himself that a particular class or activity is only appropriate for Asians to pursue, that child will miss on the exact academic opportunites that the parents are killing themselves paying their mortgages for.   It is very natural for any child to feel uncomfortable being the only person of different heritage in a room of 30, 40, 50 peers.  That discomfort must be eradicated, and that - unlike learning physics or calculus - must come from home.[/quote]

As a mom of white female and white male STEM students at Churchill, the racial makeup of the classroom in their AP STEM classes never made them uncomfortable or was ever a factor in the decisions they made when choosing their classes.  Many posters on this thread who have never had children in our school are making assumptions based on false stereotypes.[/quote]

That is a credit to you and to your children.  We child did attend Churchill for a year before testing into one of the magnets.  One of the years in her middle school, she was the only non-Asian child on a 50-member math team.  She had a great experience, as did your children.  [/quote]

Sorry but you can't test into a magnet after 1 year of high school... [/quote]

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