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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure I’ll be really sorry I asked this, but what “problems” is TJ having?[/quote]

Where everyone is annoyed at the amount of asians. That’s also an issue at Stuyvesant IIRC. [/quote]

It's not just that they are annoyed at the high number of asians, they are annoyed at less than 10 blacks in a class of 480 freshmen at TJ.
It helps that the asians have beern crowding out white kids so interest covergence led to white people moving the goal posts to catch maybe 12 more black kids per year (and in the process catching about 50 more white kids per year), all by removing some merit from the process.

At stuy the argument was harder because the asian kids were poorer than the rest of the students (asians frequently have the highest poverty level of all racial groups in NYC).
It was also a tougher argument because top black students were being scooped up by private schools like Dalton (10% black today, about 0% black in the 1980s) which has much better college results than stuyvesant has.
Also the test is required by state law so it is harder to remove merit.[/quote]

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