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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“This is actually tricky -
Admission to Stuyvesant is determined by a single test avail to all middle school students in NYC.There are no soft criteria-no interviews,no legacy favoritism, no strings to be pulled. It’s all abt test score which determines if you can handle academics.”

- Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC[/quote]

Maggie Haberman, NYT, quoted Ruhle to say:
“White students generally have more means with which to prep for this test, some doing it for years. Yes it’s a test, no it is not an equal playing field.”

I’m not sure why Maggie used white when Asians are the ones dominating this system. [/quote]

The simple truth is that Asian relative overperformance demonstrates that “discrimination” is not a significant driver of outcomes on this sort of test.  It has always been a very inconvenient truth for those who insist all groups are [b]equally talented[/b], generally ignored because of that inconvenience, and because Asians didn’t seem to want to make a big issue out of it.  Now there is a critical mass of Asians who are going to resist getting shafted in the name of diversity.  Will be interesting to see how that all works out.[/quote]

You think it's a level playing field? So it's just pure talent that is being compared by these tests? 
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um yeah.  There are poor and middle class asian kids who are getting in.  [b]That throws out race and SES as an excuse[/b][/quote]

I'd guess that the home lives of most poor black/Latino kids are pretty different from those of poor kids with Asian immigrant parents.  For example, I'd imagine that the level of trauma exposure would be a lot higher in the former.[/quote]

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