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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is about race and resources.  You cannot choose your race. However, you can choose how to use your resources. It is called an economic choice.

Should I drink starbucks or save for my kid's education?
Should I get a nice hair color, cut, extensions, blow dry or save for my kid's education?
Should I buy lunch at work or pack lunch from home and save for my kid's education?
Should I have a cleaner at home or save for my kid's education?
Should I live in a nice place or live in a low COL housing area and save for my kid's education?
Should I buy new clothes or buy from thrift stores and pay for my kid's education?

Asian-American parents save from meager resources for their children. They are paid less than White counterparts but they still save for their children's education.  Yes, a lot go in making their kids succeed.  However, we all have the choice to not have children in the first place.  No excuses to make babies and then not do everything in your power to make them succeed by providing resources. No child asked to be born. [/quote]

Setting aside for the moment the virulent racism of most of the assumptions in the above....

It is wrong when access to educational opportunities are dependent upon having parents who plan for them from an early age.

When access to AAP and TJ change (and they will) over the next couple of years, there will be nothing stopping parents from continuing to do everything they can to enrich their child from an educational perspective. But if it's done properly, those choices that the parents make won't have nearly as great an impact on those access points.

It's the students who are going to AAP and TJ, not the parents. But right now, the privilege of having motivated parents is masquerading as "merit" when in reality, the students have very little to do with the metrics that are being used.

[b]Test-taking is not a relevant skill in any area of life other than educational access.[/b] It's time to stop using it as a gatekeeping mechanism.[/quote]

Test taking was never a problem until Asians surpassed whites and it all of sudden became a problem.  :roll: [/quote]

It became a problem when people in high places realized that test taking ability is only a predictor of test taking ability.[/quote]

Untrue. [/quote]

Definitely true, and becomes more true as test-taking becomes a more highly specialized skill that is being taught from an earlier age.

I am a fairly unremarkable individual who scored over 150 on an IQ test and over 1500 on my SAT because my parents enrolled me in classes from an early age that were designed to make me a better test taker. I shouldn't have had the opportunities I've had growing up - I'm not especially smart and I'm not an especially hard worker. But I did graduate from TJ and I can tell you that there are a lot of other impostors like me roaming the halls there right now - many moreso than there used to be - because test-taking is an overemphasized skill in today's educational realm.[/quote]

And most studies indicate prepping does not increase test scores significantly. [/quote]

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