Who cares if the Asian kids study more to qualify for the exam schools? (And if you think that’s the only reason they’re disproportionately represented, you’re kidding yourself.)
The point of the schools is to allow the most advanced students to study in more rigorous environments than general public school classrooms—which the exams are very effective in enabling.
Affirmative action admissions will undo that and require the exam schools to hold the top students back with watered down classes—which defeats the purpose of having exam schools to start with.
They can go ahead and memorize a whole new set of answers to a whole new set of entrance exams. Nobody is stopping them.
But it isn’t fair...
You have to bring down the best and the brightest so the less than the best and brightest don’t feel left out...
We are no longer about reaching our maximum potential.
Being “fair” is more important than actual achievement.
Unions paved the way...