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Re: You assume schools are purely about academics
by Iwasblind

"And this DOES ALSO apply to asian students when normalized for their socio-economic background (remember most asian immigrants come from the intelligensia and well to do classes and you have to normalize the sample set for this)."

I presume you are saying that there is a difference in academic performance between a six year old asian immigrant child born into the "intelligensia" and a six year old asian immigrant child born into the working class in the same school. Why would this be?

What about the asian immigrant child whose parents were upper class in their country of origin, but arrived here penniless? Would that child's academic performance differ from that of the asian immigrant child in the same school whose parents are also affluent here?

How do you explain the differences in academic performance between young children born into the "intelligensia" and those born into the working class?

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