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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not Asian but I hope they fight back. In my city, our number 1 magnet has a high Asian population. Similar things are happening with the admissions process. However, a large percentage of the Asian population have parents who are poor immigrants. People keep throwing the word "privilege" around. I am mot sure how being a poor immigrant and probably a high percentage are not documented make you privileged. [/quote]

Privilege doesn’t only refer to the amount of money someone has. There are lots of ways to be advantaged that don’t involve money at all. Kids have no say in what family they are born to and shouldn’t be penalized for that fact. 
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Don’t black parents at least speak English? She me Asian parents are not fluent in English so that would put them at a disadvantage. [/quote]
Why does that matter? If the kid speaks fluent English, it's a non-issue. It's the kid who is applying, not the parent. [/quote]

Because the entire argument for changing the admissions system at TJ was that Asian parents were privileged and URM parents were not privileged. That’s why. [/quote]

I dont understand Asian Americans obsession with being "discriminated" against for schools or college. Bias against Asian Americans is that you are smarter than other people, better at math, etc. Asian Americans also make more than any other race for the same job with the same education in the same location. [/quote]

So Asian Americans are the model minority and have no right to speak up against discriminatory practices?  Asian American discrimination is real. But the overarching problem, in my view, is assessing students predominantly through the lens of race, rather than as a person and an individual. That’s the truly invidious aspect of some of these discussions about race. There are privileged Asian American kids who benefit from the efforts of their families, just as there are wealthy/well off white, black, Latino families. But there are also kids who are from poor families, new immigrant families, etc. And of course there are both white, black, minority kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. A truly equitable approach to education and admissions would be to make a high quality education available to ALL kids and then to take family socioeconomic background into account in admissions, not just race. [/quote]

How do you evaluate a person by just test scores and a gpa? BC thats the argument I hear for admissions when this is discussed- only academics matter. [/quote]

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