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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a teacher in FCPS and I never saw any anti-Asian bigotry and I haven't as a parent either.  Other prejudices, yes - racism against black and brown people, anti-semitism  occasionally, anti-Muslim, but not anti-Asian, unless you count the stupid "where are you from" comments that ignorant people sometimes make.[/quote]

Then you never sat in the IEP meeting with an Indian family that had a kid with learning disabilities and the school suggested that the parent just step up and do more at home and hire a tutor while continuing to deny services to their child.

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Honestly, though, I don't think that was due to the child's race. [/quote]

You think they would have told a Black or Hispanic family with documented evidence that the child is 2 grades behind and had failed every SOL for the past 3 years to get a tutor and deny services?[/quote]

Yes? If the family's 'documented evidence' didn't meet the standards for whatever services you were trying to wring out of them. Teachers and administrators are well aware of parents efforts to reclassify their kids in order to get as many advantages as possible even if the 'problem' is that the kid is just average. [/quote]

Nice.  So now it's the Asian family trying to "wring" "advantages" out of the school.

Thank you for making my point glaringly clear. 
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Did you read the black parent's testimony above? Exact same thing. And you made your point very clear when you singled out black and hispanic families.

- signed someone who knew a white family who got their kid reclassify all the way up through undergrad so they could take every single test at home with extra time[/quote]

Was it the same scenario? NO.  The Black family testimony was getting the school to acknowledge their child had LDs.  Very different scenario. FCPS will always push back on acknowledging LDs. We had already gone down that road, which is why we had outside testing done from multiple sources in the first place.

Our school already knew our kid had LDs. Had her child already failed every SOL for the past 3 years?   Our school did testing, we did outside neuropysch testing, we had documentation from a highly regarded developmental pediatrician, and results from a study the NIH did.  Each and every one stated he needed services.

Still they suggested my kid just work harder and for us to hire a tutor. Their exact words were "he just needs to work harder".

But yeah, an Indian family with a child that literally cried each day and called himself stupid and couldn't read beyond 2nd grade level in 5th grade, that had been trying to get the school to see his struggles since 1st grade and was still being told that he just needs to work harder is "gaming the system".

F off with your racist stereotypes and your need to tell me we were not being discriminated against.

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