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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now it used to be that if you asked around to find out which schools were the whitest, you would get some nasty accusations of racism. Not anymore! Check out GreatSchools, where ratings are nearly 100% correlated with race. The higher the number, the more white kids. The lower the number, the more black and Hispanic kids. It's that easy! And you can still tell your friends "We don't care what color the kids are. We just want the best schools." Everybody wins!

(Yes, of course I'm sarcastic. Not everybody wins. In fact, nearly all neighborhoods lose with such a targeted tool for white-flight. In the meantime, nobody learns anything about each school's principal, class size, facilities, discipline policy, philosophy, class offerings, etc. Just test scores. They're all that matters now. Am I bitter? You bet. People will say I'm just mad my school's rating dropped. Yes I am. This goddamn GreatSchools formula turns the fantastic kids at my local school into a liability -- little anchors weighing down property values. This is wrong.)

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Little anchors are weighing the whole school district down. Most families don’t want to set up house that schools illegal aliens and their kids. I have seen how time consuming it is for the teachers to teach them.  And sorry to say but they do decrease test scores, they will never close the gap, and they do lower home values. No one wants to live in a neighborhood that looks like a 3rd world country.

But you keep welcoming them as they decrease school and home values. Not to mention take up a large portion of our school budgets with more ESOL teachers and FARMS than our budget allows for. So we just ask for more and more money.

Asians assimilate and make education a priority. Even the poor ones. [b]In NYC, it took poor non English speaking Asian immigrants only 6 months to bypass Hispanic and AA scores in public school. Within a year they were at or above whites.[/b] It doesn’t take money or white privilege to do well in school. It takes parents at home that prioritize education into their kids.

But don’t worry. The more they cross here and the more babies they pop out, Hispanics will dominate MC. They already are the majority in MCPS bypassing whites students last year. Mucho Gracias!! [/quote]

I doubt the poster that made the ignorant comments above will change his or her mind. But just in case there are reasonable minded people that think the points made above have any level of validity I offer the following:

You can find 100s of articles just like the one provided below with stats and citations from actual experts that study race relations.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks

[quote]A piece from New York Magazine's Andrew Sullivan over the weekend ended with an old, well-worn trope: Asian-Americans, with their "solid two-parent family structures," are a shining example of how to overcome discrimination. 
Sullivan's piece, rife with generalizations about a group as vastly diverse as Asian-Americans, rightfully raised hackles. Not only inaccurate, his piece spreads the idea that Asian-Americans as a group are monolithic, even though parsing data by ethnicity reveals a host of disparities;[/quote]

"Sullivan's comments showcase a classic and tenacious conservative strategy," Janelle Wong, the director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, said in an email. This strategy, she said, involves "1) ignoring the role that selective recruitment of highly educated Asian immigrants has played in Asian American success followed by 2) making a flawed comparison between Asian Americans and other groups, particularly Black Americans, to argue that racism, including more than two centuries of black enslavement, can be overcome by hard work and strong family values."

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This article didn't have facts, only assertions from people who study "racism".  There is a difference.  [/quote]

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