[quote=sdrealtor]AN
You are oversimplifying things. [/quote]
Why do you say I’m oversimplifying things? If anything, I’m complicating things. You said:
[quote=sdrealtor]It’s demographics beyond ethnicity. My kids school has o e of the highest API scores in the county and Asians make up a pretty low percentage of the students. The kids all grow up in households with highly educated parents hence they continue the cycle. Would love to say its the teachers but I don’t think so.[/quote]
and I said:
[quote=AN]I think it’s a combination of both demographics and ethnicity. You can’t dismiss the fact that most of the time, API score for Asians is higher than Whites in the same school. If the Asian population ins your kids’ school is larger, I’m sure their schools’ overall API score would be higher than it is today.[/quote]
So, in essence, you said it’s all about demographic and I’m trying to say it’s both demographic and ethnicity.
[quote=sdrealtor]The smartest kids at our school aren’t Asian. Furthermore Asian and Hispanic are broad categories. [/quote]You may be right that the smartest kids in your kids’ school is aren’t Asian, but if I’m looking at the right elementary school, the Asian students there on average have a higher API score than their white counter part.
[quote=sdrealtor]The Asians in MM could be more skewedbtoward blue collar Vietnamese families while the the Asians in CV are skewed toward physician parent Chinese families to a greater extent. The Hispanics in CV could be from the Eden Gardens barrio area while the MM Hispanics from Qualcomm engineer parents. Ethnicity is too broad. You need to look at the education and values of the parents more than the ethnicity.[/quote]
I won’t dispute these assumptions, since I don’t have data to disprove it. But, I’m not sure if you’re aware but you just proved my point. Lets assume your assumptions are correct in regards to the demographics. The blue collar Vietnamese are out scoring the professionals Hispanics in MM. The blue collar Vietnamese in MM are also outscoring the whites professionals in TP. The only group that outscore them are the professional Chinese in TP.
I never said ethnicity is the only factor that matter. You can easily prove that it’s not by looking at White’s API score in Carmel Valley vs Asian’s API score in any of the schools in East San Diego.
You’re correct that Asians and Hispanics are broad categories. Same with whites and blacks. However, we only have data broken down by ethnicity. It would be nice to see a more granular break down of the Asians and Hispanics categories. Unfortunately, we don’t have that data.
