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In the article, it sounds like the Asian parents who had their kids in advanced math classes wanted it to continue.  Not sure why people who did not have their kid in the program should have any say in the matter.[/quote]

The administrators of a public school district do not base their policy decisions solely on parents' stated desires. Nor should they.[/quote]

Thus the article and controversy in Princeton.  Getting rid of a program that is 90% Asian smells of politics.  Kind of similar to why DC does not have a gifted and talented test-in (not application) program because the kids in it will be mostly white.[/quote]

I wonder if people ever bother to read the article before commenting on it.  The superintendent was worried about the recent suicide clusters at schools in Palo Alto and Newton, schools with similar demographics, i.e. affluent with high percentage of Asian.  In Palo Alto, a number of the suicides were Asian males.  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/[/quote]

PP again, in addition, teachers were spotting suicidal thoughts in a number of the student's writing in Princeton Junction.   [b]Seems like the administration is more concerned with the whole child than the parents[/b][b].[/quote]

Yes. This.  It almost seems what those parents are putting their kids through is child abuse, [/quote]

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