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While they are stale (2007), I haven't seen a newer source breaking down exact ethnic origin (As Arab ethnicity isn't recorded in official stats), and I think historical information is important to include. I will look for another article in Detriot papers which may give further info on this.
Middle Eastern-origin students are counted as white in school demographics and that is why a school that is indicated to be majority white had a majority Arab student body in 2007; however members of the general public may not be aware of this. Would it clarify things if I explicitly stated that in the article in a footnote?
WhisperToMe (
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23:21, 14 December 2017 (UTC)reply
I see no use in including 10 year old information that by definition changes every year. If you can find a more current source (2-3 years old or less), and a source verifying the bit about Middle Easterners being counted as white, then ya go for it.
John from Idegon (
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23:46, 14 December 2017 (UTC)reply
If there's no context and plenty of better sources (say the article is long like
Stuyvesant High School) I understand removing old statistics without context. However I like to include the 2007 information because there are relatively secondary few sources (as of writing) so there's less to go on (including the 2007 stats means we have some snapshot of the exact demographics, even if it's dated), because the demographics were presented in the context of several other majority Arab schools (in the source article), and because I want show change or continuity over time (For example a book about Mexican-Americans notes that in the 1950s/1960s many east Houston high schools had only a few Mexican-American students, but now Mexican-Americans are the majority in those schools, and the original source explicitly made that conclusion).
WhisperToMe (
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03:54, 15 December 2017 (UTC)reply
"Adding the classification also would help the government and independent scholars understand more about trends in health, employment and education. "We can't even ask questions like that, because we don't have the data," said Germine Awad, an Egyptian-American and professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin."