“By looking at the stats of, you know, how small the Muslim population is you’d think we would be winning the war against terror, but they’re infiltrating everywhere.”

I guess they were my friends, yeah, they were my friends—would take my baseball hat and draw penises on my hat because, like, it was the whole Dong thing. And actually, most of the time I didn’t mind it. But eventually, after a while it just kind of like, they would escalate things, thinking they were funny

Basham concludes that the prohibition against speaking for others may have caused these students considerable difficulty in trying to capture in their own words the ideas of another. Because they had been taught to always speak for themselves, they found doing so much more com-fortable and culturally compatible. STEREOTYPING There is a widespread belief that Asian-American children are the "perfect" students, that they will do well regardless of che academic setting in which they are placed. This stereotype has led to a negative backlash in which the academic needs of the majority of Asian-American students are overlooked. I recall one five-year-old Asian-American girl in a Montessori kinder-

t just in test-taking situations but in daily life, like being the only Black student in an advanced math or science class, for example. The student in such a circumstance is likely to have a heightened awareness of being "the only one."