NY School Chancellor pushing racism against Asians

I don’t think it’s quite that simple: professionalization really matters. For a couple of decades, the US absorbed a large number of Polish, Magyar, Czech and Lithuanian immigrants, especially into the Ohio River Valley and the Upper Midwest, and they laid the foundation for high paying union manufacturing jobs, large Catholic families generally more focused on piety and marriage, and home ownership. They came from places with only two effective strata of society (below the aristocracy), smallholder peasants and city craftsmen. The goal wasn’t elite education; it was stability.

That isn’t the case for Han, Korean and especially Gujarati immigrants: they come from highly stratified societies, and where the people who can ‘get out’ are already profrssionals with ambitious aspirations for their offspring.

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Interesting.

I too went to “gifted programs” for both JHS and HS.

I was not a driven student - neither self-driven, nor driven by my parents, who are both teachers - a college art professor, and a kindergarten special-ed teacher.

But I was really good at taking standardized tests.

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