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My name is Stella Shew. We are in Forest Hills, Queens in District 28 in New York City.

And I am a parent of a current 7th grader and a middle school in Forest Hills.

Stella is a parent leader at her son's school and the education chair of the Forest Hills Asian Association.

She was born in Shanghai.

Going back a bit.

My father was a very good student. He was the top of his class, smartest kid ever, graduated top of his high school class.

And unfortunately, just as he was about to go to college, the cultural revolution happened.

So during that time, all the educational institutions in China shut down.

He wasn't afforded a chance to attend college.

And he wanted to come to the states because social mobility in China is very limited.

So, you know, to risk a corn, he joked he wanted to come here and pursue the American dream.

Stella moved to Queens in 1987 when she was 10 years old.

Her family's first apartment was in a neighborhood called Elmerst.

My father, my mother, and I in one bedroom.

And it was another family. It was a father and his teenage son and his teenage daughter.

So it was six of you in a two bedroom apartment?

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