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January 15, 2011 at 11:32 AM #655508January 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM #654400
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Participant[quote=flu] . . . But hey, I’m going to get around this…Before my kid is a freshman in high schoool, I’m going to temporarily change her last name to something like “Smith” or “Ramirez” and not check the ethnicity box… Hey, perfectly legal to change one’s last name, and if the admissions board classifies her mistakenly, that’s not exactly my fault is it? Yes, it might sound ridiculous…But that’s just how ridiculous some of our social policies are….[/quote]
I’m laughing at this, flu, ‘cuz many HS parents of kids and students themselves already do this. I didn’t realize this until last month, when I began actually looking at the CA API-score website’s “demographics” of HS’s I’m intimately familiar with. Many, many students don’t even HAVE to change their names. They can just claim on paper that they are a certain “ethnic minority” (although I believe everyone is a “minority” in SD County) and it flies. It’s ALL IN A NAME. For example, they can be 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 or 100% “Hispanic” but if they happen to have an Hispanic name, they’re “Hispanic” on paper. I have no doubt that a local school and/or district receives more Federal funds for programs if they appear to have a higher “minority” population so encourage kids to check the box “Hispanic” on their state test answer sheets. I’m looking at these kids’ very “caucasian-appearing” parents and grandparents all around me (orig from US east coast and middle America) and laughing at the demographic “stats” for my local HS.
Same goes for college applications. With an Hispanic name, it looks as though a applicant might be in a “disadvantaged category” to a college admission board when in actuality, the kid was raised upper-middle class (many on 1/2 AC+ lots, lol) and had every advantage. I guess it helps that most of the public perceives SD South County as “upper TJ” and a ghetto, because it’s situated on the US/MX border. These local kids are laughing all the way to CSU/UC campuses all over the state. A student is admitted to college on paper only. Luv it!!
It’s like looking at the photos of a RE listing online as opposed to being at ground zero viewing it in person . . . lol!
You are correct flu. It’s perfectly legal to change your name or your ethnicity to any ethnicity you can legally identify with. Whatever it takes to get admitted :=]
January 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM #654462Participant[quote=flu] . . . But hey, I’m going to get around this…Before my kid is a freshman in high schoool, I’m going to temporarily change her last name to something like “Smith” or “Ramirez” and not check the ethnicity box… Hey, perfectly legal to change one’s last name, and if the admissions board classifies her mistakenly, that’s not exactly my fault is it? Yes, it might sound ridiculous…But that’s just how ridiculous some of our social policies are….[/quote]
I’m laughing at this, flu, ‘cuz many HS parents of kids and students themselves already do this. I didn’t realize this until last month, when I began actually looking at the CA API-score website’s “demographics” of HS’s I’m intimately familiar with. Many, many students don’t even HAVE to change their names. They can just claim on paper that they are a certain “ethnic minority” (although I believe everyone is a “minority” in SD County) and it flies. It’s ALL IN A NAME. For example, they can be 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 or 100% “Hispanic” but if they happen to have an Hispanic name, they’re “Hispanic” on paper. I have no doubt that a local school and/or district receives more Federal funds for programs if they appear to have a higher “minority” population so encourage kids to check the box “Hispanic” on their state test answer sheets. I’m looking at these kids’ very “caucasian-appearing” parents and grandparents all around me (orig from US east coast and middle America) and laughing at the demographic “stats” for my local HS.
Same goes for college applications. With an Hispanic name, it looks as though a applicant might be in a “disadvantaged category” to a college admission board when in actuality, the kid was raised upper-middle class (many on 1/2 AC+ lots, lol) and had every advantage. I guess it helps that most of the public perceives SD South County as “upper TJ” and a ghetto, because it’s situated on the US/MX border. These local kids are laughing all the way to CSU/UC campuses all over the state. A student is admitted to college on paper only. Luv it!!
It’s like looking at the photos of a RE listing online as opposed to being at ground zero viewing it in person . . . lol!
You are correct flu. It’s perfectly legal to change your name or your ethnicity to any ethnicity you can legally identify with. Whatever it takes to get admitted :=]
January 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM #655055Participant[quote=flu] . . . But hey, I’m going to get around this…Before my kid is a freshman in high schoool, I’m going to temporarily change her last name to something like “Smith” or “Ramirez” and not check the ethnicity box… Hey, perfectly legal to change one’s last name, and if the admissions board classifies her mistakenly, that’s not exactly my fault is it? Yes, it might sound ridiculous…But that’s just how ridiculous some of our social policies are….[/quote]
I’m laughing at this, flu, ‘cuz many HS parents of kids and students themselves already do this. I didn’t realize this until last month, when I began actually looking at the CA API-score website’s “demographics” of HS’s I’m intimately familiar with. Many, many students don’t even HAVE to change their names. They can just claim on paper that they are a certain “ethnic minority” (although I believe everyone is a “minority” in SD County) and it flies. It’s ALL IN A NAME. For example, they can be 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 or 100% “Hispanic” but if they happen to have an Hispanic name, they’re “Hispanic” on paper. I have no doubt that a local school and/or district receives more Federal funds for programs if they appear to have a higher “minority” population so encourage kids to check the box “Hispanic” on their state test answer sheets. I’m looking at these kids’ very “caucasian-appearing” parents and grandparents all around me (orig from US east coast and middle America) and laughing at the demographic “stats” for my local HS.
Same goes for college applications. With an Hispanic name, it looks as though a applicant might be in a “disadvantaged category” to a college admission board when in actuality, the kid was raised upper-middle class (many on 1/2 AC+ lots, lol) and had every advantage. I guess it helps that most of the public perceives SD South County as “upper TJ” and a ghetto, because it’s situated on the US/MX border. These local kids are laughing all the way to CSU/UC campuses all over the state. A student is admitted to college on paper only. Luv it!!
It’s like looking at the photos of a RE listing online as opposed to being at ground zero viewing it in person . . . lol!
You are correct flu. It’s perfectly legal to change your name or your ethnicity to any ethnicity you can legally identify with. Whatever it takes to get admitted :=]
January 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM #655194Participant[quote=flu] . . . But hey, I’m going to get around this…Before my kid is a freshman in high schoool, I’m going to temporarily change her last name to something like “Smith” or “Ramirez” and not check the ethnicity box… Hey, perfectly legal to change one’s last name, and if the admissions board classifies her mistakenly, that’s not exactly my fault is it? Yes, it might sound ridiculous…But that’s just how ridiculous some of our social policies are….[/quote]
I’m laughing at this, flu, ‘cuz many HS parents of kids and students themselves already do this. I didn’t realize this until last month, when I began actually looking at the CA API-score website’s “demographics” of HS’s I’m intimately familiar with. Many, many students don’t even HAVE to change their names. They can just claim on paper that they are a certain “ethnic minority” (although I believe everyone is a “minority” in SD County) and it flies. It’s ALL IN A NAME. For example, they can be 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 or 100% “Hispanic” but if they happen to have an Hispanic name, they’re “Hispanic” on paper. I have no doubt that a local school and/or district receives more Federal funds for programs if they appear to have a higher “minority” population so encourage kids to check the box “Hispanic” on their state test answer sheets. I’m looking at these kids’ very “caucasian-appearing” parents and grandparents all around me (orig from US east coast and middle America) and laughing at the demographic “stats” for my local HS.
Same goes for college applications. With an Hispanic name, it looks as though a applicant might be in a “disadvantaged category” to a college admission board when in actuality, the kid was raised upper-middle class (many on 1/2 AC+ lots, lol) and had every advantage. I guess it helps that most of the public perceives SD South County as “upper TJ” and a ghetto, because it’s situated on the US/MX border. These local kids are laughing all the way to CSU/UC campuses all over the state. A student is admitted to college on paper only. Luv it!!
It’s like looking at the photos of a RE listing online as opposed to being at ground zero viewing it in person . . . lol!
You are correct flu. It’s perfectly legal to change your name or your ethnicity to any ethnicity you can legally identify with. Whatever it takes to get admitted :=]
January 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM #655523Participant[quote=flu] . . . But hey, I’m going to get around this…Before my kid is a freshman in high schoool, I’m going to temporarily change her last name to something like “Smith” or “Ramirez” and not check the ethnicity box… Hey, perfectly legal to change one’s last name, and if the admissions board classifies her mistakenly, that’s not exactly my fault is it? Yes, it might sound ridiculous…But that’s just how ridiculous some of our social policies are….[/quote]
I’m laughing at this, flu, ‘cuz many HS parents of kids and students themselves already do this. I didn’t realize this until last month, when I began actually looking at the CA API-score website’s “demographics” of HS’s I’m intimately familiar with. Many, many students don’t even HAVE to change their names. They can just claim on paper that they are a certain “ethnic minority” (although I believe everyone is a “minority” in SD County) and it flies. It’s ALL IN A NAME. For example, they can be 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 or 100% “Hispanic” but if they happen to have an Hispanic name, they’re “Hispanic” on paper. I have no doubt that a local school and/or district receives more Federal funds for programs if they appear to have a higher “minority” population so encourage kids to check the box “Hispanic” on their state test answer sheets. I’m looking at these kids’ very “caucasian-appearing” parents and grandparents all around me (orig from US east coast and middle America) and laughing at the demographic “stats” for my local HS.
Same goes for college applications. With an Hispanic name, it looks as though a applicant might be in a “disadvantaged category” to a college admission board when in actuality, the kid was raised upper-middle class (many on 1/2 AC+ lots, lol) and had every advantage. I guess it helps that most of the public perceives SD South County as “upper TJ” and a ghetto, because it’s situated on the US/MX border. These local kids are laughing all the way to CSU/UC campuses all over the state. A student is admitted to college on paper only. Luv it!!
It’s like looking at the photos of a RE listing online as opposed to being at ground zero viewing it in person . . . lol!
You are correct flu. It’s perfectly legal to change your name or your ethnicity to any ethnicity you can legally identify with. Whatever it takes to get admitted :=]
January 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM #654410ParticipantI listened to Chua and her husband’s short NPR interview. Both sound like they’re on the same page with parenting and both are extremely eloquent. (Both have JD’s, duh!!) Chua doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously in the interview, seems “well-balanced” and insists the book is a “memoir,” not a “how-to guide.”
I agree with Chua on one major issue. That is, kids do not need their parent(s) to be their “friends” while they are developing discipline. They already have all their school buddies, their 387 myspace “friends” and their 423 facebook “friends.” That’s enough folks to keep track of for one kid :=!
I think she will sell a lot of books. Sensationalism sells. Also, her daughters are 15 and 18 now so it is apparent that they both survived the early “abuse” that Westerners will say they had to endure. Chua and her husband will be laughing all the way to the bank in the coming months.
January 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM #654472ParticipantI listened to Chua and her husband’s short NPR interview. Both sound like they’re on the same page with parenting and both are extremely eloquent. (Both have JD’s, duh!!) Chua doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously in the interview, seems “well-balanced” and insists the book is a “memoir,” not a “how-to guide.”
I agree with Chua on one major issue. That is, kids do not need their parent(s) to be their “friends” while they are developing discipline. They already have all their school buddies, their 387 myspace “friends” and their 423 facebook “friends.” That’s enough folks to keep track of for one kid :=!
I think she will sell a lot of books. Sensationalism sells. Also, her daughters are 15 and 18 now so it is apparent that they both survived the early “abuse” that Westerners will say they had to endure. Chua and her husband will be laughing all the way to the bank in the coming months.
January 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM #655065ParticipantI listened to Chua and her husband’s short NPR interview. Both sound like they’re on the same page with parenting and both are extremely eloquent. (Both have JD’s, duh!!) Chua doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously in the interview, seems “well-balanced” and insists the book is a “memoir,” not a “how-to guide.”
I agree with Chua on one major issue. That is, kids do not need their parent(s) to be their “friends” while they are developing discipline. They already have all their school buddies, their 387 myspace “friends” and their 423 facebook “friends.” That’s enough folks to keep track of for one kid :=!
I think she will sell a lot of books. Sensationalism sells. Also, her daughters are 15 and 18 now so it is apparent that they both survived the early “abuse” that Westerners will say they had to endure. Chua and her husband will be laughing all the way to the bank in the coming months.
January 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM #655204ParticipantI listened to Chua and her husband’s short NPR interview. Both sound like they’re on the same page with parenting and both are extremely eloquent. (Both have JD’s, duh!!) Chua doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously in the interview, seems “well-balanced” and insists the book is a “memoir,” not a “how-to guide.”
I agree with Chua on one major issue. That is, kids do not need their parent(s) to be their “friends” while they are developing discipline. They already have all their school buddies, their 387 myspace “friends” and their 423 facebook “friends.” That’s enough folks to keep track of for one kid :=!
I think she will sell a lot of books. Sensationalism sells. Also, her daughters are 15 and 18 now so it is apparent that they both survived the early “abuse” that Westerners will say they had to endure. Chua and her husband will be laughing all the way to the bank in the coming months.
January 15, 2011 at 1:12 PM #655533ParticipantI listened to Chua and her husband’s short NPR interview. Both sound like they’re on the same page with parenting and both are extremely eloquent. (Both have JD’s, duh!!) Chua doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously in the interview, seems “well-balanced” and insists the book is a “memoir,” not a “how-to guide.”
I agree with Chua on one major issue. That is, kids do not need their parent(s) to be their “friends” while they are developing discipline. They already have all their school buddies, their 387 myspace “friends” and their 423 facebook “friends.” That’s enough folks to keep track of for one kid :=!
I think she will sell a lot of books. Sensationalism sells. Also, her daughters are 15 and 18 now so it is apparent that they both survived the early “abuse” that Westerners will say they had to endure. Chua and her husband will be laughing all the way to the bank in the coming months.
January 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM #654837briansd1
GuestI was watching people pick their food and not eat veggies.
I’m thankful to my strict parents for making me eat everything. As kids we were never allowed to choose our own food.
As a consequence, there is no food that I dislike. In fact, some things are acquired tastes (such as goat cheese and Chinese bitter melon). I think it’s a social handicap to have a limited diet and limited food knowledge.
January 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM #654899GuestI was watching people pick their food and not eat veggies.
I’m thankful to my strict parents for making me eat everything. As kids we were never allowed to choose our own food.
As a consequence, there is no food that I dislike. In fact, some things are acquired tastes (such as goat cheese and Chinese bitter melon). I think it’s a social handicap to have a limited diet and limited food knowledge.
January 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM #655496GuestI was watching people pick their food and not eat veggies.
I’m thankful to my strict parents for making me eat everything. As kids we were never allowed to choose our own food.
As a consequence, there is no food that I dislike. In fact, some things are acquired tastes (such as goat cheese and Chinese bitter melon). I think it’s a social handicap to have a limited diet and limited food knowledge.
January 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM #655634GuestI was watching people pick their food and not eat veggies.
I’m thankful to my strict parents for making me eat everything. As kids we were never allowed to choose our own food.
As a consequence, there is no food that I dislike. In fact, some things are acquired tastes (such as goat cheese and Chinese bitter melon). I think it’s a social handicap to have a limited diet and limited food knowledge.
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