Posted on 07/07/2008 6:33:25 AM PDT by liberallarry
Asian American students will outnumber white classmates for the first time in the freshman class at the region's most prestigious public magnet school this fall, a milestone reached as the number of African Americans and Hispanics has remained low and the Fairfax County School Board prepares to review the school's admission policy.
The rising concentration of Asian Americans at T.J. mirrors demographic trends in other elite math and science magnet schools. In New York, the selective and specialized Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School have Asian American majorities, although about 10 percent of the metropolitan population is of Asian descent. In San Francisco, Asian Americans make up more than 60 percent of the students at selective Lowell High School and about a third of the city's population.
The demographic imbalance in top public magnet schools has become a sensitive issue, however. Black and Hispanic students often are vastly under-represented. Many of the schools struggle to reflect the diversity of the wider population while maintaining a transparent admissions process with uniformly high standards.
Jenny Tsai, a recent Harvard University graduate, wrote her thesis about what she perceived as a growing sentiment that "too many Asians" were at top magnet schools. She attended the selective Hunter College High School in New York, where she sensed "a certain level of anxiety" as the portion of Asian American students in the entering class grew from less than a third to more than half between 1997 and 2003. Tsai said some students felt a need to justify their admission or their contributions.
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Good for you! I have 4 and it’s really not that big of a deal. Movies and TV shows always try to make it seem as if it’s a mad house but it’s not. A house with only 2 kids seems so empty to me.
Hard not to do well when you are afforded MBE status, ‘consideration’ in acceptance to the best schools and other perks.
Showoff.
Wait ... you’ve got to remember ... “white” has been DECONSTRUCTED.
In other words, you have a bunch of whites kids drifting through the schools with parents who feel ashamed of their identity and don’t really know who they are. Why? Because Hollywood, academia and diversity seminars in corporate America have DECONSTRUCTED people from the European tribe.
They’re taught to feel guilt, they’re taught to have misplaced compassion, to not do their best so the other kids can get ahead, etc.
I know exactly what I’m talking about. I have a B.S. in Psychology, still study Psych and I’m involved with the advertising industry.
If you don’t know who you are or feel guilty about who you are YOU WILL NOT PERFORM WELL.
It’s like psyching a boxer out - if he’s psyched out he’s not going to perform well.
Exactly.
Especially when people forget that Asia itself is racially diverse.
>>>>>Might just be me but that girl seems awfully young - too young to have pics posted of her on a website.<<<<<
Nope, ASA Vet is posting pics of his wife again.
ASA, you are one fortunate man.
Look at present day America today.
White kids are taught their ancestors were drooling, evil, ignorant savages. How can you perform with that nonsense being drilled into your head?
Here in 2008 America, look at all of the negative Italian sterotypes. And if your kids have any Eastern European blood in them, there’s bad sterotypes about them too. Lots of these video games for example involve shooting at Germans and Eastern Europeans. They involve Italian thugs killing people.
I suspect culture has more to do with it.
>>>All of this “diversity is strength” nonsense doesn’t benefit my Italian/Czech American kids in any way.<<<
Obviously the root of “diversity” is “to divide”, and that’s what we’re seeing promoted among all ethnic groups in today’s USA.
There are various academic sub-disciplines which are exploring how genetics shape cultures. That is, how heritable traits effect community development & regulation.
Every generation has its PC; in Galileo's time, it was Copernicus. Today, we have race. In each era, there are legitimate reasons to cling to dogma simply to avoid societal collapse ie the illusion must be maintained.
We can't afford to have 1/3 of our population (Black+Hispanic) simply say they can't compete and quit. Well, a significant percentage do, but it's hardly ever articulated in that fashion.
We must soldier on until a solution is developed.
One small correction:
Promoted by all ethnic groups minus one that represents MY KIDS. Thus frustrates me to no end that my family members went out into malaria ladden jungles, doged bullets, and for what? My kids unless they live in Montanna won’t get to benefit from the sacrifice my family’s vets made.
>>>Especially when people forget that Asia itself is racially diverse. <<<<
Indeed it is. The Malay, Javanese, Thai, Khmer, Vietnamese, and Southern Chinese ethnicities all have distinct racial characteristics.
Oooooh, what an angel!
Your kids were supposed to inherit a place in a prestigious school? Really?
No, I wouldn’t say genetics. Instead I’d say family and drive. Asian kids are often pushed, or push themselves without mercy. They bring home a B and are asked why it isn’t an A. They bring home 95% and are asked why not 100%. The entire family has high expectations and the time and effort is put into ensuring results.
It takes a family unit to push this way.
I don’t think it is genetics that is at play here . All the Asian Americans that I personally know (mostly of Chinese heritage ) did not rely on the school system to educate their children ( I didn’t either and mine is also at the top of her class and is hispanic )
If you allow the system to teach your children they will never be more than average or just slightly above average students .
It takes a huge personal effort by the parents at a very early age to really make children excel academically . Quite frankly most Hispanics and most black Americans (many white Americans too ) are more interested in teaching their children about fashion and fancy sneakers than they are teaching them algebra at an early age .
Next year is my daughters senior year and by the time she finished she will only need around 6 months worth of college classes to complete her second year .
I didn’t let her hang out , she doesn’t date , she has never worn “ name brand “ clothes or shoes . Instead of spending my money on high priced “fashion items “ I bought software to tutor her or did it myself. Instead of spending money on summer camps that teach art , sports etc. I spent my money on academic and leadership camps .
Where does it say that in my posts? I’m talking Macro concepts not micro.
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