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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freshman acceptance:
7 black
33 Latino
587 Asian
194 white

NYCPS district overall is 67% black/Latino, 15% white, 15% Asian. Stuyvesant High School is comparable in selectivity to TJ, but I suppose a bit more prestigious, with more national prominence. This is a huge story.

What is going on here? How are Asians so wildly overrepresented and black and Latin kids so underprepared in a $24 billion annually system?[/quote]

On the one hand: New  York ought to make sure that just about all of the kids who took the test and scored at a minimum level ought to have access to a solid score, with qualified teachers, access to AP classes and tests, etc.

The district can't keep hard-working Asian kids from getting a great education.

But it looks as if only 3.6% of the African-American kids who took that test received offers from any of the test schools.

That means the system is shutting out a lot of serious, bright, hard-working African-American kids with great grades and pushing them into weak schools. That's terrible. Schools need to find ways to nurture and encourage those kids, not slam a door in their face.

Second, one problem not being discussed is that putting kids in schools with few African-American or Latino students is bad for the students in those schools. They're going to end up living in a world in which they're going to have to relate to people who are African-American and Latino, without having much actual experience with relating to people from those groups.

I'm a white person who's the product of those kinds of schools, and I think that kind of segregation is crippling. I can pretend that I'm so wonderfully enlightened and relate to all people the same wonderful way, but that's not actually the truth. It's hard for me to believe that other products of similar schools are all that much more well-equipped for a diverse world than I am. The whole point of South Park is that we're absolutely not. [/quote]

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