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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this country to do well, you either have to be White or bust your ass like Asians and get good/prestigious education.

Asian students are doing well around the globe.  Why look at TJ? Look at all schools in DMV, country, world and Asian-Americans are at the top.

Now, if you are White, you really don't have to be good in studies.   Oh well![/quote]

I'm white, and I agree with you that as a whole, Asians work a lot harder than white people or any other groups.  That's why they're overrepresented in AAP and TJ.  One important question to consider is whether AAP and/or TJ are intended for the kids who are the most ahead through hard work, or whether they're intended for the kids who are naturally the smartest.  There's going to be some degree of culture clash on that question, since (white) American culture generally prizes natural aptitude over hard work, while Asian culture generally prizes the hard work over the natural aptitude.

We've seen on this forum that many white parents feel that their smart kids deserve to be on top, and they're upset that other kids are working harder and thus doing better than their kid.  For TJ, the obvious solution is free prep classes run by FCPS for all, but I don't think a lot of the non-Asians would be satisfied with that.  They don't want their kids to do prep activities and catch up with the Asians.  They want the Asians to stop putting their kids in prep classes, so their own bright children will shine more without the hard work.  [/quote]

AAP isn't supposed to be about hard work, it's supposed to be about intelligence - that's why the test are done in early elementary and focus on cognitive abilities and not acquired knowledge. That's also why some people have a problem with it- hard work is explicitly not rewarded, intelligence, regardless of whether it's paired with hard work, is. [/quote]

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