<p>Is your child’s high school like that? Lafayette High School has become infamous over the past two years for it’s anti-Asian discrimination. The article doesn’t mention it, by the way, but the school is 45% black and 26% Hispanic, with 10% white and 20% Asian. </p>
<p>People don’t like to talk about it, but it’s pretty obvious: black and Hispanic kids are really beating up on and harrassing Asian kids. If the bullies had been white, the article would have mentioned it and called the beatings “hate crimes.” But the article doesn’t even mention the bullies’ race meaning… they went the politically correct route (i.e… the bullies were black/Hispanic and it wouldn’t have been PC to present them in a bad light).</p>
<p>Is it like that at your child’s school? If you’re an Asian parent, can you explain why it seems Asian children do not “fight” back? If you’re a non-Asian parent, have you picked up on racism focused at Asian children in particular? Why does this happen?</p>
<p>A son of one of of our friends was stopped after school by 1 black kid and a hispanic kid demanding his walkman (or whatever kids now carry). He beat up both by himself. Police were called and everything. Turned out the son was like 2nd degree black belt (or was it Tae Kwon Do ? ) and won many marial art tournaments. Now when these 2 guys are afraid of him now. </p>
<p>Granted this is an exception. And I don’t know what the answer is. Do you teach your kids to meet violence with violence ?</p>
<p>i live in the los Angeles area. Far too many public schools here are war zones. At many there is full police deployment every day when school lets out. you just have to be different from the next kid, wear the wrong color, step in the wrong neighborhood, say the wrong thing, look the wrong way. Getting beaten up is the least of it. Kids are gunned down every single day, with little end or solution in sight as their parents have surrendered the neighborhoods to gangs and other miscreants. Whether you are Asian, black, white or green is no longer particularly relevant.</p>
<p>When I was in middle school, I heard stories like that at Lafayette. It is seriously a very very bad school. I know an Asian kid who used to go there but transferred out sophomore year. </p>
<p>My school is 51% so we rarely get racist remarks. However I can imagine it’s a different for my brother who attends a worse school and takes the subway.</p>
<p>“If the bullies had been white, the article would have mentioned it and called the beatings “hate crimes.” But the article doesn’t even mention the bullies’ race meaning… they went the politically correct route (i.e… the bullies were black/Hispanic and it wouldn’t have been PC to present them in a bad light).”</p>
<p>I was unable to find this article in your link, however, it has been my experience that when they don’t mention race in the media it it usually a non-black/hispanic person. Too bad anyone has to experience what you indicated in the topic, but also too bad that it is assumed here that the perpetrating students are students of color, (non-white).</p>
<p>I think incidents happen all over
The Bellevue school district- recently noted in the past several years for academic excellence as measured by students taking AP courses ( Newsweek) recently agreed to pay a former student almost $200,000 to settle a lawsuit for sexual harassment that occured on their watch starting when she was 7.</p>
<p>I was sexually assaulted in middle school by a group of boys in a neighboring district and was afraid to even report it to the police- although I did report it to the school. Incidentally I am white and the boys who assaulted me were white.</p>
<p>I haven’t noticed Asians being picked on- but I have noticed that harassment of young women continues- usually by a boy of their own race.</p>
<p>In HI, Asians are one of the largest ethnic groups anywhere, so they are generally NOT bullied. My kids attend a private HS, where Asians represent the large majority, but I have NEVER heard of any racial problems anywhere in the school & the ethnic groups blend very well, faculty, students and families.
There are some racial tensions at some public schools in the state. I believe they tend to be mostly gang-related rather than ethnic issues.
Unfortunately, there are sexual assualts which occur in our state, though I have not heard of the occurring among students other than occasionally at the university.
Violence, bullying, and all of that does not appear to be addressed much and often ends up in the courts, which does NOT have the tools to deal with these issues.</p>
<p>Kateapollo, you need to sincerely understand the point made by Bullwinkle and others.</p>
<p>Racial harassment occurs, sadly. But I doubt that the bullies/perpetrators limit their choice of victims by race. The allegation of “PC sentiments” is often just a cloud used by folks who have another agenda or axe to grind.</p>