As schools reopen, Asian American students are missing from classrooms
Nancy Lin, left, with her kids, Miranda Gao, 12, and Stanley Gao, 13, in Philadelphia. She decided to maintain their remote education because of issues with a school building’s condition. (Rachel Wisniewski for The Washington Post)
March 4, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EST
It’s happening in well-to-do Pakistani households in the suburbs of Washington and among Chinese restaurant workers in Philadelphia. It’s happening among weary Filipino nurses in Queens, Hmong refugee families in Minneapolis and in Silicon Valley’s Asian American community.
As school buildings start to reopen, Asian and Asian American families are choosing to keep their children learning from home at disproportionately high rates. They say they are worried about elderly parents in cramped, multigenerational households, distrustful of promised safety measures and afraid their children will face racist harassment at school. On the flip side, some are pleased with online learning and see no reason to risk the health of their family.
In New York City, Asian American children make up the smallest share of children back in classrooms — just under 12 percent — even though they represent 18 percent of all students. In Tennessee,
less than half of Asian families enrolled in Metro Nashville Public Schools opted for in-person learning, compared with nearly two-thirds of White children...
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My kids go to private school here in Québec, Canada...only a few out of about 30 Asian kids have returned. Those that did not return...they're now all being home-schooled. My oldest teenager, his girlfriend is Asian...her family elected to home school her in the final year prior to CEGEP and have cancelled her wanting to live in an apartment with three of her girlfriends.
My brother's kids in South Dakota, his kids said not one of the Asian kids have returned back to school. They too go to private school. The same is almost true with the children of my other siblings in Illinois, Arizona, and Kentucky.
Thus, if you like conspiracy theories or propaganda about children in America. Try to explain the above. Let us make this more interesting...its not just Asian families in North America. I'll give you some clued below.
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Time away from the education system has given families the distance to wonder if they’re better off at home during the Pandemic.
You're missing a bigger problem that is growing in North America's education system since the start of the Pandemic...
“I’m hesitant because of all this rise in anti-Asian violence,” Hung said.
“I experienced a lot of racial bullying as a kid, given this current climate I’m very hesitant about being out in public with my children and sending my children back to school.”
Hung isn’t the only Asian American parent who’s having second thoughts these days. Across the country, there have
been reports of Asian American students returning to in-person learning at
much lower rates than their peers of other races and ethnicities.
Here's an interesting take on the topic from someone that's Asian and well-known author...very interesting view.
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