From NYC to Harvard: The War on Asian Success
30th December 2015
The year 2015 was a dismal one for American public education — at least by the numbers.
But don’t blame the kids. Parents are missing in action.
Except most Asian-American parents, that is. They tend to oversee their children’s homework, stress the importance of earning high grades and instill the belief that hard work is the ticket to a better life.
And it pays off. Their children are soaring academically.
The outrage is that instead of embracing the example of these Asian families, school authorities and non-Asian parents want to rig the system to hold them back. It’s happening here in New York City, in suburban New Jersey and across the nation.
John Derbyshire used to say (and may still) that there wasn’t anything wrong with New York City that 1,000,000 ethnic Chinese wouldn’t cure. I think he’s right.