[quote=AN][quote=flu]Well in on honesty, imho “race” base performance these days is more of a myth than truth imho…
Imho, it has a lot more to do with social-economic environment/background than actual “race/ethnicity” in this modern world.
You take a bunch of upper-middle class educated people and stick them in one school district, doesn’t really matter what ethnicity they are. Chances are they all want the same thing (probably) and probably perform more or less the same…Maybe that’s what’s going on…Bahh, i don’t care… (for the last time)…[/quote]
I would have to disagree with this one. Here’s an example:
Hoover HS API:
Asian – 747
Torrey Pines HS API:
Hispanic – 745
This is comparing low income area vs upper middle class area. How can you explain the fact that Asian in low income areas like El Cajon getting similar API scores as Hispanics in an area like Carmel Valley?[/quote]
I think it changes when you move out of upper middle class educated neighborhoods where things are more equalized. In lower class areas you are far more likely to have kids on the way up, kids on the way down and kids treading water which explains the difference. The asian kids in the lower class areas are probably more likely to come from more recent immigrant families from more recently developing countries (vietnamese etc.) and are on the way up.
