 The "model minority" image is also seen as being damaging to East Asian American students because their assumed success makes it easy for educators to overlook some East Asian American students who are underachieving, struggle academically, and assimilate more slowly in the American school system.Some American educators hold East Asian American students to a higher academic standard and ignores other students of East Asian origin with learning disabilities from being given attention that they need.This may deprive those students with connotations of being a model minority and being labeled with the unpopular "nerd" or "geek" image.