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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except that no one was happy with the recently current state of Stuy, including and/or especially Asian students.  It needed to be fixed.  Whether this is the right fix, something needed to change, and this is a start.  Paralysis solves no problems.  [/quote]

Do you have a source for that assertion?  Part of the reason Eric Adams received so much Asian support was due to his promise not to touch the SHSAT.  Seems to go directly against your statement.

While on the subject of Stuy and DE&I, many of the most promising URMs pick up full ride scholarships to the elite private schools.  There are a number of non profits that identify these up and coming URMs and groom them for entry into schools like Trinity, Exeter, and Spence.

https://nypost.com/2018/06/09/how-nonprofits-are-boosting-nycs-brightest-minority-students/

This is a great opportunity for URMs, and I applaud them for it.  They help many, many URMs receive elite secondary educations which then help them enroll into elite universities.  Great!

But you can't then turn around and bash the SHSAT for perpetuating the racial imbalance.  Would you rather receive a full ride to $50,000 private schools and network with the rich?  Or would you rather struggle with the poor immigrants?

Really, the quickest way to reduce the racial imbalance in the specialized schools would be to ban these private school scholarships for the URMs.  It wouldn't completely fix the ratios, but they would at least look a lot better than they do now.

Instead, the brightest URMs get a private school scholarship pipeline, something not available to Asians.  That helps skew the ratios at the specialized schools, and then the Asians get bashed for the skewed ratios.

I understand these scholarships aren't the only reason for the skewed ratios, but let's at least start by acknowledging that many of the best and brightest NYC URMs have better options.  They don't really have a need to go to the specialized schools.

Then we can have a more nuanced conversation about whether the SHSAT really is the problem.[/quote]

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