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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op again. This thread sort of took a turn...systemic and institutional racism in the US is a problem, and it affects all marginalized populations. It needs to be addressed for sure, and we all need to vote to put decent human beings in public offices, so policies can change for the better - less discrimination, less violence, less poverty.
However, I started this post because I was seeing COVID-induced anti-Asian hate crimes, my white American husband was very worried that our half Asian children might be subjected to this kind of hate and aggression. What can we do to protect them? What can we do to prepare to deal with issues, if/when they come up? We've had a very bad experience in the past, and we don't want to make the same mistake again meaning, wasting a bunch of time and our emotional energy dancing around with the school administration and teachers to not hurt these ignorant, racist white perpetrators' feelings. One example of the dance - one kid thought our son was black and used the slur for black people, told him to go back to his country, go back to Africa. My son called him an idiot, he wasn't from Africa, Africa isn't a country. Asst. Principal wanted my son to apologize to the kid for calling him an idiot. We said hell no, have that other kid apologize to him for using the slur - they said, well, he didn't "mean it" plus your son is not black, so what's the big deal? Ugh. Makes my blood boil just remembering that day.

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I’m so sorry that happened to your kid.  100% unacceptable from the kid saying it through the Admin, whose jobs would be on the line if they pulled that crap here. And that should never happen here. But I won’t say it won’t, because it’s a big school system and sometimes people are just scum. Certainly, it would not be accepted. The other students— white and Asian— in the school would call it out before the teacher and Admin sat that kid and his parents down and serious consequences were imposed for hate speech.  This area made it through the Trump area remarkably well for such a diverse community.  Not only do we not tolerate that we actively do not want it.  There should be no Admins dancing. There should be an apology to your child and swift consequences.   We are so over Trump era crap.

As you can tell, the ongoing conversation here is about inherent bias and systemic racism.  We are struggling with it as a community, but at least we are addressing it and trying.  For an Asian parent, the biggest issue is almost certainly going to be perceptions about hypercomeptive academics and tiger parenting. [/quote]

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