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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
+1  my DC's soccer team practices 2x/week. The other teams practice 1x/week. My DC's soccer team didn't lose a single game last year. I guess they gamed the system so they don't really deserve the division championship.[/quote]

It doesn't mean your kid is better, just means he had better coaching. If each child had the same opportunities as your son then it would be equal. [/quote]
Then they should make that opportunity, just like the coaches and parents did for my son and his team. They all had the same opportunities, they just didn't do it.

Never said they were better. Just said that they practiced more and won the championship. Does that mean they gamed the system like these kids who studied more?

Since when is studying and preparing for a test considered gaming the system? If your kid had a test wouldn't you want your kid to study and prepare for it?[/quote]

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