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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting insight from a woman who attended Stuyvesant: 
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/stuyvesant-high-schools-chronic-lack-black-students/585349/

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"The city has expanded efforts to inform more students about the test, and provide preparatory tutoring for them,"

that's all the can be done it's up to the students and parents to decide how much work and effort they want to put in now[/quote]

"[b]Miller says that she was the only student in her majority-Latino middle school who planned to take the selective high-school placement test. [/b]Many of her fellow students didn’t know about it, she says. The city has expanded efforts to inform more students about the test, and provide preparatory tutoring for them, but the needle still has not moved on black enrollment. Miller isn’t sure that getting rid of the test altogether is a good idea, but [b]she is concerned that the test can be gamed. She took a prep course, and she heard of several other people who took three or four. Some students can learn how to take the test and get a leg up; others think the odds are so stacked against them that it isn’t even worth it to try.[/b]"

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this is like saying some AAU players cheat becaseu they practice more bball while non-aau players are just playing pickup and not really putting in that work. [/quote]

You do realize their are a ton of great athletes that can't afford the top teams and coaches and get less exposure at tournaments. So yes... it's similar. Plus Catholic school coaches have relationships with coaches and get their kids into college before another deserving kid. There are literally movies about how corrupt the system is. [/quote]

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