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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS administration is ignorant at best and racist at most. A lot of new comers to the U.S, especially Asians, are treated as &quot;inferior&quot; or incapable of adjusting to the American education system. My son, as well as the children of my contemporaries (who are immigrants) have been downgraded to low-level classes (basically regular -- non AP or honors) when they are far more capable in tackling advanced topics. Because of this flawed system, my child is behind in all subjects and fields by an entire year because the counselling unit decided to push back all his subjects into their pre requisites. E.g --&gt; his capabilities aligned with the AP calculus course but he was pushed back into the regular algebra 2 course. His knowledge in history in his previous school back in Asia aligned with AP WH, but was pushed back, again, to the pre requisite history course. And finally, many of his previous classes back in his previous school that tackled important STEM subjects (chemistry, biology and physics) were voided and now he has to make up for such credits in future years. His entire freshman year was marked by redundancy as he breezed through everything as these topics were discussed the previous year already. And finally, his GPA was deflated as this administration did not recognize that subjects he took in his previous school were in a higher magnitude of difficulty.

This is just my story and there are so much more hidden incidents that are being swept up under the rug: lost credits that were unavailed, mistreatment by the teachers or mentors, etc. Please recognise that coming from a different educational background isn't necessarily INFERIOR. [/quote]

Indonesian immigrant here. I don't know much about the degree of discrimination in the US school system  but I can understand OP's complaints here. Let me tell you, the reception and treatment I received compared to my best friend who was half american and half japanese was really different (our coursework was extremely different; and I was a sci-math kinda person and she hated math). Case and point, east Asians, according to my observations, are less likely to face such issues..... I don't get why the comments here are automatically scratching racism out of the conversation. they miss the entire point :roll: OP you should really talk to your child's guidance counselor. [/quote]

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