De Blasio's plan to reduce Asian representation at NYC's elite schools
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Anonymous
What it boils down to is much dumber kids—painfully below par—getting in because they identify as a diff color other than Asian and white. |
Anonymous
+1 - signed a Korean American who grew up poor, with uneducated parents. |
Anonymous
? better than 100% under achieving brown/black kids.... see how that works? |
Anonymous
| I am a graduate of one of the schools - Bronx Science. Most of the online feedback from alumni has been to keep admissions tied to the test. That said. as a white lower middle class male the open mindedness and diversity at Science was fantastic. It saddens me that folks of color are under-represented. There is a program that if you scored close to the minimum and were low income you could take classes over the summer and secure admission. They are discussing expanding this program and that’s a great idea. I think we have to some how normalize for opportunity. Admissions should still be objective but the experience was enhanced by the diversity. |
Anonymous
The answer is not lower standards and special breaks for certain minorities. The solutions is to encourage other minorities to buckle down and study hard like Asians. Less hip hop and more Confucius, in other words. |
Anonymous
That's what they are doing: the plan "offers a certain number of seats at each school to low-income students, and eliminating a standardized test that determines admittance to the schools. They also proposed amending the eligibility criteria to target students at high-poverty high schools." People who are not underprivileged are mad about it because they don't want "those kids" taking a seat in the classroom. |
Anonymous
+1 . At some point the handicaps will end and these people will have to compete on their own merits. |
Anonymous
| 30 percent of the slots should go to blacks. Disagree with me all you want. |
Anonymous
Did you attend one of these schools ? |
Anonymous
why cap it at 30? |
Anonymous
yes lets do 130% |
Anonymous
Lol...you couldn’t find enough blacks that were remotely interested in attending the gifted schools. But yeah, let’s dumb down the curriculum to accommodate the lowest common denominator. |
Anonymous
That absentee low IQ mayor is dragging NYC back into the gutter. |
Anonymous
especially since black males are about 6% and black women are about 6% of the total US populations |
Anonymous
How true. Too bad no one is allowed to express this opinion. |