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Participant[quote=sdrealtor]Looking around SoCal I see very few poor people. I grew up near and spent alot of time in Camden NJ growing up and worked in Newark NJ. That is poor like nothing I have seen around here. Boarded up homes, no windows, no heat and sometimes not running water in frigid temparatures and searing heat/humidity. I have been in some of their homes too. CAR grew up and spent essentially her whole life in SoCal. I doubt she has ever been exposed to true poverty.
BTW, all those kids in Camden still seem to be able to afford Air Jordans (or whatever the cool shoes are now), iPods, Cell Phones and mCDonalds all the time.[/quote]
I can truly say, even the poorest of the poor here don’t even come close to the poor in the 3rd world country I’ve lived in.ParticipantNice story Essbee. I know a few similar stories as well. API score will only tell you on average what the total student body perform at and what each sub ethnic group perform at. It might affect the borderline kids but the smart and driven kids will still be smart and driven even at schools that have API score of 1 (I know a few) and kids who are not as smart and lazy will continue to be average and lazy even at school with API of 10. I know doctors who went to HS with API score of 1 and I know people who went to Torrey Pines HS who can’t even get to a top 100 university. It all comes down to your kids and how you teach them and how much you emphasis you put on education. When you’re compare schools that have API scores of 9 and 10, I think you’re starting to split hair.
Another important thing to remember is, API score will only give you want the average student body perform at. The smart kids will hang around with the smart kids, even at schools with API of 1. The people I know that went to school API of 1 hung out with the other Valedictorians and they tend not to intermingle with the gang bangers. API score is only one metric of assessing the school. It won’t drastically change your kids capability.
Participant[quote=bpnbpn]The topic started was whether the workload in CV is too stressful for a kid…how is it compared with del sur schools…
We are way off topic discussing ethnicity.[/quote]
Unless you have a parent who have the same kids in both schools, there’s no way to know. It really depends on your kids. Some kids will breeze through AP classes in the best school and some kids will struggle in a regular class at a mediocre school.Maybe, that’s who no one responded for 2-3 days, because no one really know the real answer. It comes down to your own kids capability. If you noticed, no one on this thread really answered your original question.
Participant[quote=bpnbpn]Note that most of the asians in CV are chinese and most of the asians in Mira mesa are vietnamese/Philippines etc…[/quote]
Philipinos have their own category. So Asian in MM are mainly Vietnamese.Participant[quote=flu]
But I have to say, at least for hondas it doesn’t require you to drop have a fuel tank to replace a fuel filter like *cough* a B5 Audi A4…. (I lucked out because I have small hands)…Surprising the Mercedes w203 C class isn’t that bad to work on…. I pretty much replaced the front end recently…[/quote]
I’m very impressed flu. I wouldn’t dare attempt replacing the front end. I would only try DIY if I can finish w/in a couple hours. The rest, I’ll just buy the parts and take it to the shop :-). Maybe it might be different if it’s a 2nd/spare car. I don’t dare do that on my main commuter.Honda might designed hard to replace rotor, their engine is quite easy to work on. I remember changing spark plugs in 10 minutes and changing valve cover in a snap. Same with intake and exhaust. There were so much room to work with.
Participant[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.
ParticipantWhat wheel bearing? I don’t remember changing the wheel bearing when changing the pads and rotor.
Participant[quote=captcha][quote=AN]
Torrey Pines High:
Asian – 955
Hispanic or Latino – 744
White – 871Mira Mesa High:
Asian – 895
Hispanic or Latino – 781
White – 869
[/quote]Looking at this alone it can’t be ethnicity alone since MM Asians are clearly scoring lower than Torrey Pines Asians.[/quote]
Totally agree, which is why I said this earlier:
[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. [/quote]
What’s also interesting is, Hispanic in MM is scoring better than Hispanic in Torrey Pines.Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]
And yea you need a poll.[/quote]
With polls you can’t read the last comments first.
I think it’s fun to read people comments.[/quote]
That’s what annoy me about polls too.Participant[quote=flu][quote=paramount]flu: Do you happen to know if the brakes on BMW’s are realistically do-it-yourself-able? I always do my own brake jobs, but that’s only been on Ford’s and Toyota’s for the most part.[/quote]
Actually, that’s one thing the german car companies do better than Honda. The discs are really easy to take off. If you’ve worked on a honda disc brake, you’d know what I mean..
Audi, Mercedes, and BMW are pretty easy to take off.
If you can’t do brakes on these cars, don’t even bother to try anything else…
Here. E90… E92 should be similar
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76418http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=246116%5B/quote%5D
Looks pretty easy to me. However, I still think my Brembo brakes are easier, at least to change the pads :-). It’s the same for changing the disk. One big bolt and it’s off. Floating discs rocks. It takes me longer to take off the wheels than change the pads.It wasn’t that bad to change pads/rotors on my Integra. Is Honda that different?
Participant[quote=Nor-LA-SD-GUY2]In my little corner of TechLand it is āGame Onā all of a sudden , I think flu is right about a new bubble forming.
And yea you need a poll.[/quote]
+1. Game on indeed.Participant[quote=flu]Is this really a surprise to you Brian? It’s been going on for some time, even back when I went to an ivy league back in 92…It was ridiculous seeing what was admitted at times… This has been going on for some time. Above-average (yet not exceedingly outstanding) Asian-american students always get screwed. I’m telling you, the best way to avoid this altogether is before entering high school, change the last name and don’t answer the question about race. I kid you not. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying asian kids are smarter.. I’m not…… But there is this hidden stupid admissions quota, whether universities want to admit it or not.
See if colleges/university really where interested in equality, they wouldn’t be asking you what race are you, would they?[/quote]
It’s only surprising to those who are not Asian. It was much more overtly displayed at the UC when I went there because of affirmative action. Luckily that got removed. That’s why today, 40+ % of the students at the top 3-4 UCs are Asian. 50% at UCSD, 40% at UCLA, and 42% at Berkeley.I agree with you that to completely remove yourself from discrimination, just change your name. If your kids are born here, give them American names. There’s no way anyone can tell my kids are Asian from their name. It always bug the hell out of me when they say they need more minorities at the Universities. Somehow, to those people, Asian are not considered as minority.
Participant[quote=flu]Correction. My zynga order executed at 10.91, not 10.80… Oh well….[/quote]
Congrats on jumping in to ZNGA. 13.51 now. 24% in two days, not too shabby. Did you bet the farm on it? šParticipant[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]
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.Another example to prove my point would be Torrey Pines High vs Mira Mesa High. Demographic wise, Torrey Pines students comes from much richer families and their parents tend to be very educated. Mira Mesa on the other hand tend to be closer to middle class community. Here are their API scores:
Torrey Pines High:
Asian – 955
Hispanic or Latino – 744
White – 871Mira Mesa High:
Asian – 895
Hispanic or Latino – 781
White – 869As you can see, the white students in Mira Mesa only trail the white students in Torrey Pine by 2 points. The Hispanic in Mira Mesa actually surpasses the Hispanic in Torrey Pines by 37 points. However, the Asian in Torrey Pines surpasses the Asian in Mira Mesa by 60 points. If Mira Mesa have the same ethnicity make up as Torrey Pines, their API score would be very similar (870ish for Mira Mesa and 881 for Torrey Pines). However, since Mira Mesa have a much larger Hispanic population than Torrey Pines, it’s total API score is in the 840s vs 870s if you take out the API scores from the Hispanic group.
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