Reply to Why doesn't MCPS care about Asian-Americans and feelings of bias/discrimination?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Why doesn't MCPS care about Asian-Americans and feelings of bias/discrimination?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because Asians take education seriously no matter what their income level. They are barely in ESOL. Their parents learn English relatively fast. They are Usually are discriminated AGAINST for magnets and still do well overall. They don’t have issues of neglect. So MCPS ignores them.

They are more concerned with hispanics because their parents don’t care about education or assimilating with English. [/quote]

This is really racist.[/quote]

Not the PP but it is accurate. Spanish speaking kids are in ESOL for average of 4 years. Asians in ESOL the average is 8 months.  Income is not a factor. Poor Asians kids outpace Hispanics and AA kids within 6 months, low income whites within a year, and middle income white kids within 2 years of entering an American school. [/quote]

It might be accurate that Spanish speaking kids stay in ESOL longer than kids of Asian descent. But PP's assertion that this is due to a failure to value education or to "assimilate with English" is racist and flawed.

Because of geography and the economics of trans-continental immigration, Asian immigrant children are likely to have been well-educated back home, and to have some English language exposure before arrival. That's a HUGE structural advantage over Central American kids who may have little formal education and zero English language exposure.

Basically, PP is taking one true thing (Asian immigrants spend less time in ESOL than Hispanic immigrants) and turning into a story about innate intelligence/desire to learn rather than focusing on the real issue, which is the massive differences between these immigrant groups. [/quote]
NP.. 
Spanish is a lot closer to English than any Asian dialect.  Not only are some of the words pretty similar, but the sentence structure is also very similar between Spanish and English.

Asian languages are very different than English - both in phonetics (pronounciation) and sentence structure.

An English speaker would find learning Spanish a heck of a lot easier than learning any Asian language, and the reverse is also true.

I make no assertions about any group's intelligence. But, some of the parents of these Asian immigrant children are not highly educated.  I will say, though, that more than likey, Asian immigrant children probably had some schooling in their home country.  There are some kids who come from Latin American countries who did not get much education in their home countries, that is true. But I don't know what the percentages are in MCPS of such students.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics