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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see the Asian YY crowd as particularly [b]representative of Asians in this Metro area[/b]. A good number of the kids are Chinese girls adopted by whites. Most of the parents are American Asians so assimilated that they don't speak their family's language, or speak it poorly, and don't identify as American-Born Chinese, Koreans, South Asians etc.

What I find to be true about most Asian immigrants, and Asian parents who grew up in domestic Asian enclaves, is that they don't see racial or socioeconomic diversity as a selling point in choosing a school. They simply want a high-performing school. Few Asian immigrant families were here during the CRM. One result is that their members tend not to be particularly sympathetic to the victims of institutionalized racism or their descendants. Asian immigrant families had their own grave 20th century problems in ancestral homelands - catastrophic wars, famine, expropriation of private property by Communist governments etc. By liberal DC standards, they're a racist bunch.

As more Asian parents embrace urban living, their DC presence grows. When we started at our DCPS five years ago, the Asian population of the school was around 1%. Now it's close to 5%. Some of the kids with Asian immigrant parents will stay in the public system, mainly at Deal and BASIS.  But I don't see any of these kids landing in 2nd tier DCPS middle school programs (SH, Jefferson, Eliot-Hine, Brookland, McFarland etc.) for years to come. [/quote]

The Asians at YY represent Asians in DC itself very well.  Most Asians don’t move to DC if they have school aged kids, period.  They move to areas that are zoned for TJ or MOCo magnets.  The Asians at YY are much more liberal and assimilated which is why they live in DC and send them to school here.  The fact that they would even consider DC public schools, including Deal and Wilson, sets them apart from most Asians.[/quote]

It's no longer that simple. Things are changing. There are now scores of less assimilated/not as liberal Asians, both high and low SES, in a variety of DC public school programs. They amalgamate in Upper NW, at Thomson ES in Chinatown (low SES Chinese and Vietnamese families) at Jefferson Academy (former Thomson families) and on CH. These families often use MoCo (Chinese) or Annandale (Koreans) heritage language programs on weekends. Those outside the Deal-Hardy-Wilson pyramid generally send their children to privates, BASIS or WL after ES.  It's true that you won't find high SES/less assimilated Asian immigrant families in DCPS middle school programs outside Deal or Hardy.  [/quote]

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