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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son gets called names like cracker or referenced as white boy but it doesn’t bother him. He has friends of all races there. He said there is nothing to worry about. He doesn’t let things bother him though. His friends parents are wanting to take their son out of school though because of things like that.  My daughter has no terrible issues at hardy either and she is blonde haired and blue eyed. She has said that she has had trouble making friends though, unfortunately. [/quote]

Come on, only one public school in the entire city enrolls enough Asian students to pull PARCC scores for Asians out by subgroup.  That's Deal - they have at least 25 Asian kids taking the PARCC.  Even YuYing and DCI don't.

There are dozens of white kids at Hardy and hardly any Asians, same as in the Hardy feeders.  OP is wise to be concerned.[/quote]

No - BASIS has at least 25 Asian students as well.[/quote]

Do you have a link showing PARCC scores for BASIS Asian students pulled out by subgroup?  I can't find one.

Maybe a question we should be asking ourselves here is why are there so few Asian students in our DC public schools. No more than 10% at any particular school, and 0% isn't uncommon, just not a lot wherever you look. Before you say, oh, that's just DC demographics for you, if you're looking for Asians, head to Rockville. Think again.

Our in-boundary middle school--Stuart Hobson--and high school--Dunbar--are both 0% Asian, which won't work for this Asian immigrant family. We may try to lottery into Hardy but are more likely to head to MoCo, like a gazillion DC Asians before us. [b]One problem is that every DC public middle and high school we might have access to would force instruction in an Indo European language on us (Latin, Spanish).  No thanks.[/b][/quote]

That sure is a weird "problem" to single out when you are living in a Western country.[/quote]

Right, weird problem, forcing kids to learn Spanish in public school (not a national language of the US last time I checked) to attend by-right schools.  There's a corpus of case law from Western states stemming from the issue.  Asian immigrant parents in Cal, Nevada, Utah etc. have sued public school systems for forcing Spanish on their children, and have won in court or settled in almost every case on civil rights grounds.  Partly as a result, few states still do this, but DC does.  It's common for kids to be forced to study an Indo European language in DC public schools.   The (higher performing) suburban municipalities in this Metro area don't do this.  They don't do it because they'd much rather support families teaching their children difficult Asian languages than penalize the families for not being "Western" enough.

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Sorry, but as a European who grew up with "forced" English instruction and then a choice of French or Latin, I will shake my head at those "civil rights" suits. But we know that in the US, you can sue for anything. Do the schools then have to offer the difficult Asian languages the families want to teach, or is the sole point to protect their kids from exposure to Spanish?[/quote]

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