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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait until you get to MS and HS when teacher choose award recipients. You'll see how few Asian American students especially East Asian students get awards for anything other than grades.[/quote]
I feel like your child goes to the same school as mine but it's probably universal in this area. HS with high Asian American percentage. More than 20 awards for things like leadership. 0 Asian Americans.
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+1 MCPS

Of course, they skip things like highest GPA, 4.0 GPA, etc... but they give out subject awards which is not based on grades, and very few of those recipients are Asian American.  These awards get called out, but the "smart" kids don't get called out.[/quote]

At our school, the smart kids get these awards. It's based on merit.[/quote]

DC's school also skipped smart/working hard/achievement awards. No 4.0 awards or academic awards or even subject awards at all. They did give out only nebulous awards to two types of kids. White kids whose parents have connections at the school or who got awards from white teachers who look like them and kids who are URM. Not sure how I feel about it. My child is an URM who did not get an award FWIW. I liked that they recognized some kids who might not otherwise have been recognized but a lot of people noticed how insulting it was to that particular minority group.[/quote]

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