The assignment was Student Data Analysis, please note I teach in Korea. In the entire elementary school I work at there are exactly 2 non Korean students. One boy is brand new, he is of Indian decent, I have heard his father is a new professor at one of the universities in town. The other is caucasian (his father a Brit and his mother is Canadian), and the only blonde student in school. The school is affiliated with the Second Day Adventist church (SDA) so the students are either practicing Christian, or don't mention religion in the classroom. Lastly it is a private school and has a limited scholarship program. Socioeconomically the majority of these students have very wealthy parents. This is very typical of Korea, home of the most homogeneous schools I have ever been. So, I looked into the demographics for the school district that I graduated from, compared to the rest of the state, county, and the numbers for the USA. Here is what I found.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Drowning in demographics
The assignment was Student Data Analysis, please note I teach in Korea. In the entire elementary school I work at there are exactly 2 non Korean students. One boy is brand new, he is of Indian decent, I have heard his father is a new professor at one of the universities in town. The other is caucasian (his father a Brit and his mother is Canadian), and the only blonde student in school. The school is affiliated with the Second Day Adventist church (SDA) so the students are either practicing Christian, or don't mention religion in the classroom. Lastly it is a private school and has a limited scholarship program. Socioeconomically the majority of these students have very wealthy parents. This is very typical of Korea, home of the most homogeneous schools I have ever been. So, I looked into the demographics for the school district that I graduated from, compared to the rest of the state, county, and the numbers for the USA. Here is what I found.
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