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[quote=Anonymous]I am an Indian Hindu immigrant who voted for Clinton.  How will this impact my children? What happens when the standards of public education becomes very low and there is not much of a curriculum to speak of at school? What will happen if they start teaching the Bible at school?

To start with, any Indian I know is not really depending on the curriculum in this country to educate their child.  We all have the parallel system of education going on where are children are being enriched as well as as participating in all possible competitions to gauge where they stand.   So, here is an entire community who is already on plan B, and so we will continue to do so.

Christian education?  I was educated in convent schools in India.  Nuns in habits and all.  It did not change my religious beliefs because Jesus became just one of the many Gods that we have and we fervently asked him and Ganesh for good grades.  For me,"Bible" reading will be another subject that hopefully will allow them to answer a whole category of Jeopardy questions.  They should bring on Torah and Koran and Gita too.  Because we need to be able to see what the commonalities in religions are.  And as an Indian parent focused on education - all knowledge is good.

Where does this or any education secretary leave us?  Frankly, the education standard is so low in the US, that it does not matter to any of us.  What can she or anyone do in 4 years?  The education is in a downward death spiral here - this needs to be made amply clear to everyone here that having a country completely run by Republicans will not change that at all.

Achievement Gap will become bigger because Asians students are not really depending on US K-12 academic standards for their education.  And unless they outsource the teaching to the teachers in India who know how to make silk purses out of sow ears...

Can anyone increase the instruction days in schools?  Can we have shorter summer breaks? Can we hold students back if they are not performing?  Can acceleration happen for the children who need it? No?  Then frankly this is not really impacting us.  [/quote]

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