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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have heard teachers make stereotypical comments about Asian American students in social settings and sporting events many times. I have also had parents say things to me and about me (an American born person of Indian heritage) that are based on stereotypes. It’s very hurtful and I didn’t experience this in the midwest probably because thwre were fewer Asian American students in my area and people were not concerned about “cultural” changed. This area is tough.[/quote]
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I'm not sure what it's like on the West Coast or Midwest but here the Asian community basically make supremacist arguments such as school academic clubs should all have Asian student leaders etc. We have large population of very poor Salvadoran students yet have to listen to complaints about the "negative" Asian stereotypes which almost all involve positive traits such as being assumed to be smart or able to answer a math question.[/quote]

You hit the nail on the head - the Latino kids I see in my Marshall HS pyramid are mostly FARMS from the nearby apartment buildings. Their parents are not educated immigrants working the white collar jobs. Their cleaning our houses, in construction, restaurant industry, etc. Yes, not all Asian immigrants are highly educated, but lets face it, most are because we don't share a border with Asia. So please stop whining discrimination at every turn and just TALK to the teacher :roll: . Also, maybe try encouraging your kids to go into elementary and teaching profession if you want to see more diversity in your teachers.[/quote]

Seriously, it’s so frustrating. Cry me a river the teacher assumes your Asian kid is smart and academically advanced. My very brown skinned Latino son read at a 2nd/3rd grade level when he entered K and was NOT put in the highest reading group with Asian students because the teacher assumed he couldn’t read. I emailed the teacher in November after a parent at Kumon asked about the differentiated homework from the highest reading group assuming my kid was in the group since my child was at a higher Kumon reading level than her child.

The teacher called me the next day and said she stopped testing my child at the beginning of the school year once he met the k standards because she assumed he didn’t know more. She tested him that day before calling me in the afternoon and said things like -I was blown away how elk he could read, how amazing, etc

So he finally got placed in the high reading group and was given harder work. My son told me who was in the group and one Asian student wasn’t even that advanced (he was at kumon too so I knew what level he was at). The teacher wrote on report card comments about how well he played soccer. Not kidding. It was several lines about his soccer skills and then added -he is a reader. But nothing about how advanced he was.

The stereotype of Asians being advanced works in their favor for the entirety of their school career, which allows them to often times automatically be placed in higher academic groups and be given harder/extra work. [/quote]

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