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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the kids in college are progressive and pro-diversity....until they start applying for medical school. It's insane how bitter Asian (and by Asian I mean people with heritage from the entire continent -  from India all the way to the Far East)  students get about having to score a lot higher on the MCAT and also wrt their grades in school.  They all know they'll be penalized for their race. I was a TA for tons of undergrads during grad school.  They openly discussed the Asian penalty factor for med school admissions when they were in their most candid moments. [/quote]

Their insane to be upset about the systemic racism that is condoned in society that they’ve had to deal with since high school. Always having to excel more than their peers to be given a chance.

Insane and bitter, huh?

They openly discussed this racism against them?  How dare they, they are Asian they need to shut up and stay in their lane right? Stay quiet, don’t rock the boat and be happy to be here ( even when they might be 3 generations in). [/quote]

You need to take a chill pill....I'm actually agreeing with the students that it is pretty messed up that they need to score a lot higher on their MCATs because they're Asian.  But I can see where what I  previously wrote was pretty bad (insane was meant in that context to mean there is a lot of bitterness [if you could quantify it] that Asian students have wrt this issue.  It wasn't meant to mean that 'it's crazy that Asian students are bitter about the issue'; bad writing on my part - I was being lazy).  [/quote]

Got it. I can appreciate that you understand their sentiments. It’s an invisible to most people, uphill battle. In FFX county it starts even earlier. There is this craziness about AAP, that also effectively has more stringent quotas. It’s not as obvious but you see it in the very subjective teacher reports and with borderline test results.

And I’m not even an AAP parent, my Asian kid has learning disabilities. I’ve had an uphill battle getting his services because they expect me to be a ‘tiger’ mom getting him multiple tutors so they don’t have to allocate resources to him, resources that are better reserved for URM. They even put him in an ESOL reading class (my son is 3rd generation, we only speak English at home) rather than provide an appropriate reading program for his specific learning disability.

I understand you’re probably tired, but the proper message matters and yes that takes more thinking and effort. Thank you for acknowledging this.

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White parent here.  Same experience in FCPS with a dyslexic child.  They kept saying there was not disability and that she was "average" and I should just accept that rather than worrying about if she would get into AAP (which I wasn't, but her sister was in AAP, so I think they made an assumption about me).  FCPS, like almost every public school in the country, ignores our kids with LDs (especially if the child "looks normal" or is bright enough to score in the average range, despite a disability).  It's very damaging.  I'm not sure that it's a race thing (maybe).  I think it's the district's effort to not have to pay to actually educate our children.[/quote]

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