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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS reputation appears to be dependent on recognizing and rewarding all hard working students, including Asian American students:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/264-fcps-students-named-2024-national-merit-semifinalists
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Both of the links that have been posted have referred explicitly to test scores.

No one disputes the fact that [b]Asian American students are exceptional test takers[/b] compared to any other demographic. Test taking ability (not intelligence - but specifically test taking ability) has tracked for decades in America with access to educational prestige, and Asian families have rightly prioritized it as a critical skill for as long as they've been here in America. And they've done so frequently at the expense of other things that are important to a child's development.

The rules are changing - not because there are too many Asians, but because testing has been observed to occlude selection processes ESPECIALLY when they are used as a gatekeeping mechanism.

Caltech - perhaps the single greatest STEM institution on the planet and the closest analog to TJ at the post-secondary level - stopped accepting exam submissions years ago and their [i]data[/i] concluded that the students they were admitting were no less prepared than previous classes.

Stop being obsessed with test scores and maybe you'll get back to competing on the level that you used to.[/quote]

Only racists dismiss asian americans as test takers.

Rest of the nation sees hardworking and patriotic Asian Americans making significant STEM contributions to the advancement of the entire mankind:

Sundar Pichai (Google), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Arvind Krishna (IBM), Jen-Hsun Huang (NVIDIA), Jerry Yang (Yahoo!), Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron Technology), Lisa Su (AMD), Eric Yuan (Zoom), Min Zhu, (Cisco WebEx), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Albert Cheng (Amazon Studios), Bobby Murphy (SnapChat), Steve Chen (YouTube), and many more

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No one is dismissing anyone. It was a compliment - Asian families recognized that standardized exams were a path to educational prestige, and they applied an inordinate amount of emphasis to it with an eye toward optimizing educational outcomes.

But it doesn't work that way anymore. Adapt or perish.[/quote]

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