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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Understand that in many white, AA, and Hispanic homes other things are valued rather than prep at all cost.  Many are involved in their houses of worship, league sports, helping out in the family business at a young age, working a job at age 15 etc.  "Prepping" at all costs is not the norm for American kids nor has it ever been.[/quote]

This is the definition of a racist. My asian kids are involved with their church, help out with family business , work a summer job. At the same time, they value their education very much and make studying (not prepping) their priority .  They don't play league sports because they just are not qualified enough. Ironically, nobody has a problem with sports (where there is an obvious lack of Asian representation) being able to select by merit, but god forbid, asian kids being a majority in a magnet school and everybody gets their panties in a twist.[/quote]

I'd love to see the sports teams selected by lottery.  The results would be equally ludicrous.  [/quote]

ok? it's a public school, what's wrong with an equal chance to participate [/quote]
The team is chosen based on value to the team. Everything can try out. Your position is to choose the team by who can do the most pushups  [/quote]

Kind of like Uber prepping for exams and classes? [/quote]

PP had a great point here. The team is chosen based on value to the team. There are a lot of students at TJ right now who are marvelously advanced but do not provide significant value to the "team", or the learning community. They are there to show up, get theirs, and get out - and by the way, this is true of students of all races. It's not an Asian thing, it's a selfish thing.

TJ would be a stronger learning community if, in addition to the question of academic ability, students were selected in part based on their desire to contribute to a positive and collaborative learning community. [/quote]

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