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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait until you get to MS and HS when teacher choose award recipients. You'll see how few Asian American students especially East Asian students get awards for anything other than grades.[/quote]

This is not the case where my kids go. Their school is about 60% white and 30% Asian, and Asian students win most of the awards (except athletics!) [/quote]

Our school that has a high percentage of Asians got rid of academic awards for this very reason a few years. Because all the winners were Asian and they didn't want that. They instead started "soft" awards of kids chosen by teachers. Every single one was white or another non-Asian minority. [/quote]
+1 at the HS ceremony, majority of "teacher favorite" awards were non Asian. Majority of scholarships awarded by outside organizations were Asian.

They recognized kids who got straight As in the past 2 years, which was a long list and had more diverse kids.  They did not recognize kids who got straight As all 4 years, which would've been a much smaller list, and probably mostly Asian.

They do whatever they can to NOT recognize the academic achievements of Asian students in the school.[/quote]

I do not see this at our HS in FCPS that is about 25-30% Asian. Class officers are often Asian; multiple faculty awards at graduation went to Asian students; the principal sent a news blast about the mostly-Asian team that won It’s Academic, etc.

I am thinking our school isn’t that different from other local schools with a lot of Asian kids and maybe some of the claims here are coming from people in other areas or exaggerated by people with an anti-public school agenda. [/quote]

We are in the DMV but not FCPS either and we've had the same experiences of AAPI kids' achievements being underplayed. Are there school administrators who are AAPI? [b]The schools in our area have like 5% AAPI staff[/b] but other types of diversity which I think is part of the issue. [b]There's no one at the staff level[/b] to raise the question of whether this is the right thing to do.[/quote]

The reason for that is obvious - do you want your DCs to be teachers or school administrations?  What jobs are you encouraging your DC to go into?[/quote]

Bingo.  [/quote]

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