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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop stereotyping Asian kids on test prepping. My child is an Asian and we did not test prep him, and he did very well on both NNAT and CogNat.[/quote]

Have you ever walked outside a Kumon or any other prep place? Have you seen the racial composition of the kids who attend such places? I am sorry if you are an exception, but it's not "stereotyping" if something is true for the majority of a population![/quote]

What do they do at Kumon???
Prep CogAT??[/quote]

I think the point is the Asian community places a high level of importance on academic preparedness and success.  This of course is not to say that other, individuals and other ethnic groups do not do the same, but in general the Asian culture as a whole has historically promoted a strong work ethic and environment that rewards and recognizes academic excellence.  This was examined in the book Outliers (great read), which equates the historic "rice paddy" agrarian societies of Asian with continued meticulous behavior and hard work.  It is a good book in that it explains in a very systematic way that many differences between cultures are rooted in history, and passed down from generation to generation.  They can be bad or good qualities, but they exist whether our PC environment today likes it or not.  Its so intellectually dishonest that one cannot state a statistical fact (note the enrollment of Asians at TJ or in AAP versus the per capita population as a whole for example) without being labeled a "racist".[/quote]

+1000[/quote]

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