How true are academic stereotypes in your school?

<p>^A crowd of black people at synagogue? :)</p>

<p>^ Actually, the Black Jewish population in Memphis is quite prevalent (think Lenny Kravitz). So, yes :)</p>

<p>edit: I’m not Jewish rofl.</p>

<p>Southern NM, my school is predominantly Hispanic (71.3% in the district), majority of the Hispanic students are in regular or remedial courses. The students who are white (24.0% in the district) generally tend to be in honors and AP courses. There’s probably only 5 Asians (1.3% in district) at my school, including myself, and I think they’re all in honors and AP courses. Black students (2.5%), like Hispanics, are in regular and remedial courses, still with a few exceptions.</p>

<p>Honestly, I don’t think we even have remedial classes at my school… aside from the “I failed the Biology and Math portions of the Tennessee Gateway exam, which I need to pass in order to graduate” classes.</p>

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<p>According to Wikipedia:

Yeah not a Jew…</p>

<p>Actually come to think of it I think there’s like this one black lady at our synagogue??? Yeah but pretty much the only black Jews I’m familiar with are Beta Israel ([Beta</a> Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Jews]Beta”>Beta Israel - Wikipedia)).</p>

<p>Aww. Last part of that quote was quite cute.</p>

<p>Theres a black Jewish Muslim protestant kid in my APUSH class: his parents think he’s Protestant like them, but he “converted” to being a Muslim over the summer and attends mosque when his parents think he’s hanging with friends. And recently he’s expressed interest in becoming Jewish.
This same kid was expelled 2 years ago for writing a death threat to his French teacher, in pig Latin.</p>

<p>Yea, I dont know…</p>

<p>Not particularly. Admissions are pretty tough.</p>

<p>At my school (public):</p>

<p>1.White
2.White
3.White
4.White
5.Jewish
6.Jewish
7.Hispanic
8.White<-------lThese may be switched. I am not entirely sure.
9.Black<-------l
10.White</p>

<p>I do not think there is an Asian in the top 100.</p>

<p>At my school (public school), we don’t have many blacks or hispanics at all (maybe 5?, out of ~2000 total students). We’re about 5-10% Asian and 90-95% white. Generally, in AP classes, Asians make up 10-30% of the students (one class is 50% Asian).</p>

<p>Cali: that is one spiritually confused kid! Or just confused in general, haha…</p>

<p>At my school the junior class top twenty are all white with maybe an asian or two thrown in there. The sophomore class has a bunch of indian kids in their top twenty the rest are white but there’s one mexican. The freshman class has a lot of asians in their top twenty.</p>

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<p>Last time I checked Jewish people are white too. Why are people on this thread creating two categories, white or Jewish? Do you mean to specify a specific ethnic group when you say white or do you mean every white except the Jewish people? What about people who are mixed? Are they white or Jewish, according to you?</p>

<p>I agree that Jewish students are generally high achieving. However, anyone can do well in school if they try really hard and it does help if education is valued by their family.</p>

<p>In my school it is true that APs and Honors classes are predominately Asian. However, my whole school is predominately Asian as well and my school is only 5% Black and Hispanic. Since I go to a “gifted school,” everyone is very smart and driven (admission is purely by an exam).</p>

<p>@concernedcitizen</p>

<p>I originally separated whites and Jews because I was talking about stereotypes, and academically, Jews “belong” to a different stereotype. For a public school, my school has a very high (35%) portion of Jewish students, so that really was why I mentioned it. For the record, the highest achieving group in my grade is five Asians and three Jews.</p>

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<p>Yes, as a matter of fact, they are (for this very limited purpose). There’s no effective way to say how true an academic stereotype for “white people” is if “white people” includes both high-achieving Jews and not-so-high-achieving Jersey Shore types.</p>

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<p>True, but (as MITHopeful posted in another thread) some races (e.g. African-Americans) don’t value education as highly as do Asians or Jews. That’s where the academic stereotypes come in.</p>