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Fair enough.  So after your prioritize your  job and basic needs like shelter, food, security and medicine.  What other thing are you doing for your kids education?

Let me pose the same question in another way.

Even the poorest of Asian students are doing well inspite of the same priorties many of us have (job, basic needs, financial security)  - http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/why-asian-students-well-parents-are-the-primary-educators/54Dqdw1fhAMEn5xdsBN5SM/ , so how are you teaching your children?

Just wanting the best for your children is not enough. You have to be investing your time in their education. I speak this as a parent of a high achieving MCPS student.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/04/asian-students-carry-high-expectations-for-success/2615483/  
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Can we stop with the model minority myth, please? And especially can we stop using the model minority myth as a club to beat other minorities over the head with? [/quote]

Not the PP but stats don't lie which means there is no myth.  It is the truth.  You can't teach poor 3rd world immigrants Algebra.  Why?  Because their parents haven't learned past a 3rd grade math themselves, can't speak English.  So that is 100% on the schools to actually teach these kids.  And guess what?  They can't.  Even with all the funding in the world, even with ESOL, even with learning specialists, etc... They gap is not closing.  Why is that?

Poor Asian immigrants take education seriously and will suffer at the bottom to get their kids the highest education.  They teach work ethic and study habits.  The parents learn English quicker, go to the library and immerse themselves in whatever they need to, to help their kids.

Go to a library in MCPS on the weekend.  80% of the families in there are Asian.  They spend hours in there.  My daughter volunteered in one last summer.  They set up shop reading and learning.  They go outside and have a picnic and come back in again.

It has nothing to do with SES and everything to do with priorities.  [/quote]

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