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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to see the true potential of kids if they all lived at boarding school. Not an elite school. Just ones away from parents. No forced test prep, no thousands on tutors, kids decide the courses they take and how often they study. They are personally held accountable. I still think Asian kids would be strong, but what is happening right now. The kids working all hours of the night, prepping for weeks for standardized tests in ELEMENTARY school. It is just getting out of hand. Reading the college threads. The need for 4.5 GPA and almost perfect SAT just to get into state schools? It is crazy. It isn’t real. It isn’t fun. It isn’t what it should be to be a kid or a teen. Too much pressure and these magnet programs are like crack cocaine to some of these parents. And the kids are stressed, anxious, depressed, medicated, lack social skills, and have zero stree5 smarts or common sense. It is scary. [/quote] Wow. I’m not Asian, but we are in a CES with lots of Asian-American kids. My kid’s BFF is from Taiwan and a perfectly nice, well-adjusted kid. If you don’t like the fact that many Asian-American kids are hard-working, then that’s your right. But, if people don’t like it when posters make assumptions about URMs, then why is it completely acceptable for posters to make blanket generalizations about Asian-American kids. This just shows that we need to look at kids as individuals, and not as these mass groups full of useless stereotypes. MCPS needs to quit with the extreme obsession with race. It’s benefitting nobody. Focus on getting ALL students working at their potential. [/quote]
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