Posted on 06/23/2014 3:10:13 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
There is nothing worse he could do to a bright young minority person than put her or him into an elite school like Bronx Science. It’s fine if the kid tests as well as the rest of the students and if the child has the background. If she/he doesn’t the experience will grind the kid into the ground.
I saw the sarcasm tag so this is not aimed at you, but the laws of Physics and his queen Mathematics are not answerable to the wishful thinking of social “scientists”.
I think Chinese heritage students make up 50% of National Merit winners.
I guess he will use a Magic 8 ball for nomination to elite schools.
Depending on the instructor, the result may be a single kid flunking our or a whole ROOMFUL of kids being slowed to the performance level of the poorest performer in the room. The latter consequence is more common in the K-12 schools. Colleges tend to prefere the "let 'em fail" mode.
I got a question if Anglos African Americans and Latinos want shot open a damn book LOL!
Asians do their homework
Kinda funny. Holder went to Stuy. Axelrod graduated in my class. So Holder would still get in but maybe Axelrod wouldn’t?
Those are the other metrics? Guess what, the same kids will get in.
They run the big 3 like colleges. Stuy,Brooklyn Tech and Bx science.
The powers that be tried altering the admissions standards at our local “elite” high school. THO, the admission process was always multi-tiered, with the test just setting a student into a semi-final pool (or not). After making that cut our kids had to write an essay, and fill out a questionnaire about interests. Their grades were blended with the test score. The result was terrific. Kids were actually chosen by ability.
That wasn’t producing a large enough #/% of minority students. They switched the standard so that middle schools from more “diverse” neighborhoods increased by quota the # of kids who’d go to Elite High.
They diddled and daddled with the entry requirements until the school faced some cheating scandal(s), and it fell from #1 in the USA.
And now in cleaning it back up, it is more than 50% Asian!!! Still don’t have the #/% of minorities they so desperately want. Those kids, most of them, don’t want to ‘act white’ and go to Elite High, but don’t try telling the powers that be.
You realize the essay is usually just a cover to let them get some unqualified kids in for “diversity”
“the reliance on the test for creating schools that he said did not reflect the citys diversity.”
The Marxists just cannot abide having a system based on merit and hard work.
I asked her what good would it do if the other children had their education disrupted by the troubled kids? She was adamant that the troubled or slow kids needed to feel wanted. I said, that's fine, but what about all the other children. She just repeated her mantra about not excluding the troubled kids. I gave up.
Suspect being able to throw a football 70 yards or catch passes or shoot 3 pointers will get you in as well regardless of test results.
“You realize the essay is usually just a cover to let them get some unqualified kids in for diversity”
Not in this case. Actually, the essay at one time was written after a kid made the cut. Then, it turns out that too many yuppie parents were writing or strongly editing the kids’ essays, so essays became part of the test itself. The school I’m talking about is science and tech, but the kids DO have to know how to write. (spelling, grammar, punctuation, those kinds of things, even for techies, are important).
There HAD been a special program to go into minority dominated schools to work with kids who showed promise, to prepare them for the exam and ultimately attendance if accepted. But it was a very tough academic program at the school, so just accepting a kid to set him/her up for failure was not going to happen. Out of 400-450 per graduating class, the *AVERAGE* SATs are in the 700 per category range every year. You’re not going to throw a kid into that environment just to make your numbers look good. S/he would be out in a semester.
In this case, maybe the mayors own kids.
Sounds like a plan, DuhBlasio. But for what?
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