<p>Today’s Boston Globe has pictures of the Boston Public Schools’ valedictorians. Among the public schools is Boston Latin, the country’s oldest public school.
Of the 38, 18 were born outside the US.
Countries of birth:
Haiti
Albania (3)
Peru
Vietnam (2)
Uganda
China (3)
Cape Verde (2)
Venezuela
Morocco
Dominican Republic
Tibet
Bangladesh</p>
<p>Their families must be very proud of them :)</p>
<p>Amazing results.</p>
<p>Multiples from Albania and Cape Verde? Kind of random, but very cool.</p>
<p>without some background, hard to put into context…for example, were these kids the scions of Ambassadors or corporate CEOs, poor immigrants, or somwhere in between.</p>
<p>What I thought most interesting was not only that they were predominantly immigrants, but that 3/4 of those kids went to charter schools (don’t quote me on the percentage; I was just struck by how many).</p>
<p>Bluebayou:</p>
<p>You are right, of course, but the only “good” schools in Boston are Boston Latin and Boston Latin Academy which are exam schools. Most of the others are either inner-city schools or charter schools. The fact that they are vals may not mean that the students are as well prepared as students from Boston Latin (the val there is Chinese), but that at least, they did better than the rest of their schoolmates. Among the American-born students, there are also many whose parents immigrated and who did not attend college.</p>