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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Almost all the asians (mostly Korean and Indian) are born & raised here. [/quote]

so what accounts for their very heavy accents and the need for ESL teachers at TJ?  Anyone born here, by age 15, speaks accentless, colloquial English and doesn't need an ESL teacher.  So I question whether this is true.[/quote]

How many heavy accent students have you met at TJ?  That is news to me.  Some may be there because they immigrated here late.. some may be kids of diplomats.. there could be many reasons.

This is the DC Urban board, right?  and you all know that places like Harvard, Yale, Stanford are about 25% Asian American these days?  That doesn't even account for the international students that are in a separate category.  If you've been to a top college these days, you will have seen Asian students.  My husband and I are both Asian American, graduated from an Ivy, and virtually all of our friends from NoVA are TJ graduates.  Many of them are also Asian, born and raised here, working as professionals all across the country.  Another interesting note is that non of them are engineers, mathematicians, or scientists.  They are lawyers, bankers, humanities professors, and even philosophers.

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(a) This was a response to the poster who said they were born here, which you confirm by saying most all of them you know were born here, so why do they need to hire an ESL teacher at TJ if these kids are all born here? [/quote]

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