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Dancing Fire|1472598678|4071623 said:Tekate|1472569458|4071438 said:
K-HS education are free for all races, but the kids themselves must learn to stay in school and not to drop out. Many of these black kids grew up in a single parent home w/o proper family supervision, plus their parents mostly likely grew up in the same type of family environment. Why are there so many young Asians in the medical and high tech field today? b/c most of these Asian kids were raised by both parents whom would push their kids to go to college to achieve a higher level of education.
A lot of Chinese immigrants of the 60's arrived in this country can't speak a word of English, but many have achieved middle class status within a generation. American born citizens are blaming society for their underachievement?..
Tell me you don't understand why Chinese American's have achieved more than African American's? You must have read about it.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-minorities-like-Asian-Americans-and-Jews-generally-succeed-more-than-other-minorities-like-blacks-and-Hispanics
http://www.asian-nation.org/model-minority.shtml
Yes education is free to students, and those who are rich can afford a better education. But:
http://hechingerreport.org/the-gap-between-rich-and-poor-schools-grew-44-percent-over-a-decade/
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/11/african-american-students-lagging-far-behind
Do we think it's all self motivation by Asian students? where i lived in Austin TX there was what 'some' parents called the "asian invasion' of wealthy, high tech asian parents - chinese, indian, korean -.. I cannot remember a time between 2005 and 2010 where the top 10 students at my sons high school were all white, or even 50% white, with most times the valedictorian or salutatorian were asian, all go to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Vanderbilt, etc.. etc. so my boys marched through their high school years, one being a low low achiever! I mean like he graduated in the bottom 15% of a class that had over 700 kids! (salutatorian and rest of top 10 of his graduating class were all Asian, valedictorian was a very annoying girl from the neighborhood who wished she knew her classmates more and spent less time on homework! hahaha I thought her parents probably wanted to kill her). Segue 5 years later number 2 son, higher achiever in the 57% of his high school class, (and he had a 4.00 gpa, yup an A average and he was in the bottom half - get the idea of how this high school worked..) he was A/P scholar, he was in the top 10% of his class on his SAT scores, he finished one semester of college in high school, he was an Eagle scout, a good football player (600+ kids in his class).. all top 10 students except for one girl in his graduating class were Asian! do I really think that the kids down in east Austin were getting the same class of teacher, the same rah rah, the same 'extras' given my sons? nope I didn't, one because I worked with a woman from that 'part' of town and her kid didn't know what an A/P class was. Hahaha! .. I don't think that people, kids, anyone except a few can just go to A/P physics and get an A or B, I think you have to have your family behind you, you need to want it yourself, I could never take A/P Physics btw. Around my sons richy rich high school the snooty, snotty moms would say the Asian kids cheated! yup, I heard that all the time, so I asked my second son? Is this true? do these kids cheat? He said NOPE, he never saw one Asian kid cheat. So why do Asian kids (and before them, back in my day; Jewish kids), achieve and work harder in school?..after seeing it through my experience I'd say parent involvement, very very very high expectations from parents, self motivation, and cultural, the Asians I met (most of my neighbors).. sent their kids to Kumon, the Chinese sent their kids to similar programs, I sent my kids to football and soccer! my expectations were not as high for my sons as these parents had for their kids.. I also think I told my sons from birth, you will go to college, their father and mother were in the software business, with Dad being a pretty high level technical leader, patent holder.. they saw this, even though my first screwed up royally.. maybe Blacks are missing this? This all around picture of money, prestige, parental love and expectation of doing well, self motivation? perhaps black kids need to value education more, which in turn society needs to value them more, the white privilege is there every day for them, we don't see as we are white or asian, we fit in.. I'd say one thing is the role model of a black hood, a black cop, a black poor mom needs to change on TV etc.. First/second generation immigrants keep their culture at home and their kids go to school and fit in.. Blacks need to value education, and they need to see the value of an education, and finally yes, they need to stop feeling the victim, that is why Black Lives Matter is the start of valuing themselves.
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