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Article #2181Re: Why do Latino kids do poorly in schools?
From: Bob LeChevalier
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:10
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:10
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"Richard" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote: >Latinos are kind of like Asians in their devotion to the family unit >and good work ethic. I don't get why their kids don't score well on >tests - could it be that the tests don't measure achievement? Or does >their culture emphasize manual tasks and not mental prowess? Or maybe it is that a different class of immigrants come here from Asia (mostly highly educated professionals and their offspring) than from the south (mostly poor, uneducated peasants). When you compare the top of one bell curve with the bottom of another, seldom do you find parity. But one Asian group that had similar bad demographics to the Latinos, the Hmong, has had similarly poor success in American education. lojbab
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