[Opinionated Blowhard]

Let’s let everyone into the elite high schools, then everyone will be elite!!!!

[COBOL2Java]

What's he going to use? A Ouija Board?

[Onelifetogive]

I don’t see why they don’t just designate EVERY school and elite school and the problem would be solved!

[firebasecody]

Oh, yeah. Here we go. Equal outcomes. As the magnet schools start teaching to the lowest common denominator, the schools and the kids will lose out. Stupid, stupid, progressives.

[ronnie raygun]

Which means life experience, meaning urban living, street cred, gang affiliations, single parent public assisted households, no father figure, Rap sheet, time on Rikers.

[Gene Eric]

Duh Blasio

[Gay State Conservative]

War on Asians *and* Jews.In fact,a war on any kid in NYC who is smart enough,who’s worked hard enough,to have gotten good grades and achieved the ability to score well on exams.

[Sooth2222]

The date line on that article is October 10, 2013. Is there some new news?

[kearnyirish2]

(War on Asians)

The NYC metro area would die without them; they are the only motivated people moving here (along with hordes of imported gibsmedats).

[Chode]

the schools are flooded with room temperature iq hoodierats but the few kids that excel don't deserve a place where they can thrive and learn in an environment free from the urbanyoot nekulturny underclass and their violence... is that it deBLOWsio you POS you???

[KarlInOhio]

Why just apply this to New York schools? I'm sure Westchester and the Hamptons would be greatly improved by de Blasio's diversity. < /sarc>

[driftless2]

What good does it do to force a kid into a school where he or she will do poorly or flunk out?

[sunrise_sunset]

I think Chinese heritage students make up 50% of National Merit winners.

[ExCTCitizen]

I guess he will use a Magic 8 ball for nomination to elite schools.

[SevenofNine]

I got a question if Anglos African Americans and Latinos want shot open a damn book LOL!

Asians do their homework

[wiggen]

Kinda funny. Holder went to Stuy. Axelrod graduated in my class. So Holder would still get in but maybe Axelrod wouldn’t?

[EDINVA]

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.

[SharpRightTurn]

“the reliance on the test for creating schools that he said did not reflect the city’s diversity.”

The Marxists just cannot abide having a system based on merit and hard work.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

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.

[EinNYC]

That's just great. Every decent school in NYC has been ruined by ghetto rats who, having ruined their own neighborhood schools and gotten them closed, were then transferred to the still well-functioning schools. Which are now no better than the ghetto schools were before the hoodrats went to work. A colleague and I were just discussing this earlier this evening. Now DuhBlasio the Commie ("there can be none who excel and none who fail; everyone must be EQUAL")wants to let the destroyers into the last sanctums of real learning in the system, the "elite" schools. I doubt the destroyers could even fill in the application for such schools properly, let alone come near to passing the entrance exams. For the first time in these schools' history, you'd start to see filthy graffiti and crude renditions of genitalia on the desks and walls. You'd see student work vandalized and ripped from walls. The Chinese kids would be bullied by the ghetto rats, sure enough. It already happens in the regular schools. You'd smell burning urine in the hallway radiators (typical), and there would be fires set in the stairwells and bathrooms. Classes could not be conducted because of dumb disruptive pranks pulled all period because Doofus was bored with what they could not possibly grasp.

Sounds like a plan, DuhBlasio. But for what?