Indian-American students among the brightest in the US

Rediff.com ^ | 7/20/04 | Unknown

[agrarianlady]

Thank you.

[MonaMars]

"If all Muslims are banned, the message will be clear and you won't see any talented immigrants come here, with the possible exception of European ones."

You're right. The Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc. have all said they'll only come to America if we let their muslim friends come too. Why just yesterday I was speaking to a Sudanese animist who said that even though his village was recently overrun and his grandma was set on fire by the janjaweed, he still thinks it would be wrong of America to exclude muslims. Afterall, they don't discriminate; when they kill people, they make sure to include everyone.

[valkyrieanne]

Perhaps this highlight how abysmal the K-12 educational system has gotten in the US.

It doesn't say that at all. Many of these kids are the *children* of immigrants, or arrived as very young children - which means that all or most of their schooling has taken place in *public schools.*

[valkyrieanne]

The article doesn't mention which percentage of these high-scorers who are schooled in private or public settings.

Around here (St. Louis) my anecdotal observation is that the Indian students are almost always US citizens (they are the *children* of immigrants) and that they go to public schools in better suburban neighborhoods.