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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would anyone undertake such a study?[/quote]

More evidence that the achievement gap starts in the home, not the school system.[/quote]

This is probably the bigger issue if Asian's (and some others like us) supplement at home and put our kids in more academically geared preschools.  [b]Maybe we should start looking at the play based preschools that are not preparing kids for K.[/b][/quote]

:lol: Oh you guys! Always cutting your nose to spite your face, no?  Make everything and everyone dumber.  It will not prevent Asian-American parents from teaching their kids at home.  Asian-Americans are educated parents. They will at least pass on their own skills and knowledge to their children.

Achievement gap is a  symptom of a huge problem. The problem is that the home life of an underperforming student is typically not conducive to academic achievement.  Achievement gap has nothing to with Asian-Americans.  That is not the problem of Asian-Americans. It is a problem that Asians did not create, did not contribute, and can not solve.  I don't understand why Asian-Americans are targeted because others are failing?  Can you explain to me the logic of that? [/quote]

[b]Asians are often highly represented in magnet schools and academic competitions.  There are people who want representation, and Asians make it harder to achieve it.  Hence the hostility[/b].  It's in-group/out-group behavior.

Some of it's also cultural.  For whatever reason, there's a disdain for nerds and strivers in this country, and many Asians fit that description.  Sports is okay.  Not academics.

But you're right.  It's not really a problem Asians created.[/quote]

Asians are not highly represented in magnet schools and academic competitions.  Academically high achieving kids are highly represented in magnet schools. A number of these kids happen to be Asian-Americans   No school is taking in a low achieving Asian-American. Heck, these schools are not even taking in many, many, many extremely intelligent high achieving Asian-Americans  because of their "quota" systems.  No one worries about Asian-American talent being wasted.

The people who want representation in such programs need to simply become academically competitive.   If they believe that their kids were also born with the same level of intelligence and talent, then what the hell did they do to their kids that they lost these gifts as they became older?

Asian American success is the success of a hard working community that prioritizes education and where the family unit puts the future of the child above all else.  There is no easy formula for it.  These parents and children work their butts off with a lot of discipline. No secret sauce to it.

You cannot have a culture of disdain for academic achievement (calling them "nerds" as you did) and then wonder why the other kids do not want to study and why they are at the bottom of the heap.   These failing children are the responsibility of their parents. It is not as if Asian-Americans are fostering these children.  OMG, you all cannot have it both ways.  [/quote]

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