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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because Asians take education seriously no matter what their income level. They are barely in ESOL. Their parents learn English relatively fast. They are Usually are discriminated AGAINST for magnets and still do well overall. They don’t have issues of neglect. So MCPS ignores them.

They are more concerned with hispanics because their parents don’t care about education or assimilating with English. [/quote]

This is really racist.[/quote]

Not the PP but it is accurate. Spanish speaking kids are in ESOL for average of 4 years. Asians in ESOL the average is 8 months.  Income is not a factor. Poor Asians kids outpace Hispanics and AA kids within 6 months, low income whites within a year, and middle income white kids within 2 years of entering an American school. [/quote]

It might be accurate that Spanish speaking kids stay in ESOL longer than kids of Asian descent. But PP's assertion that this is due to a failure to value education or to "assimilate with English" is racist and flawed.

Because of geography and the economics of trans-continental immigration, Asian immigrant children are likely to have been well-educated back home, and to have some English language exposure before arrival. That's a HUGE structural advantage over Central American kids who may have little formal education and zero English language exposure.

Basically, PP is taking one true thing (Asian immigrants spend less time in ESOL than Hispanic immigrants) and turning into a story about innate intelligence/desire to learn rather than focusing on the real issue, which is the massive differences between these immigrant groups. [/quote]

NP. PP never said that.
I think you're wrong that Asian immigrant children are likely to have been well-educated back at home. Where are you getting that? This is such a stereotype.

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