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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would you know?  Are you Asian? Are you fluent in an Asian language?

PP pointed out that Asians in DC public middle and high schools are mostly forced to study Spanish, Latin or beginning Chinese (even if they're fluent). That doesn't exactly sound like rolling out the welcome mat to me. Iffy [b]STEM and unserious music instruction[/b] can't help either.

In the burbs, students who can test out of languages generally don't have to study them in schools at all. DC wouldn't dream of giving bilingual/biliterate families that kind of recognition or flexibility.  Not equitable.[/quote]

Wow..stereotype much? I'd imagine this is important to all parents, yikes.[/quote]

Ever been to the Kumon Center in Georgetown? Most of the the kids in there after school are Asian, in a city where 2% of school-age kids are Asian. Kumon isn't even very expensive, $200/month. Ever been to a youth orchestra performance at Strathmore?  At least three quarters of the kid and teen musicians there are Asian.  The problem with stereotypes, is that sometimes the shoe fits.[/quote]

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