If you recall, I posted a similar article a couple weeks ago. It would literally only take one ghetto feral per class to absolutely ruin that class. The teacher's time would be taken up, not by teaching and helping, but with instant disciplinary issues. If these kids missed the cutoff score for the entrance exam, then clearly their reading level is not up to snuff (MUST have a level 4 of 4 possible reading levels to perform adequate work at these very high academic level high schools) and they will not be able to do the work assigned in the classes at these elite schools. Thus frustrated, they will act out and ruin everyone's opportunity to learn, too. Sort of a dog-in-the-manger attitude. It is also probable that they do not have the good academic habits which allowed the present students to pass the entrance exam and then excel at their studies. So they will not do well due to that as well.
Frankly, what does it matter what ethnicity the students have at a given high school? Why are racial quotas so important? How will the admittance of lower performing students with probable behavioral problems improve the schools? DeBlASSio claims that the parents of the present students in these elite schools are in a higher socio-economic bracket which allows them to hire tutors to coach their kids for the exam. Well, if spending their money on such a thing were important in the ghetto culture, instead of spending any available funds on high-dollar sneakers, flash jewelry, drugs, and alcohol, they'd have the money for tutors. As a matter of fact, many NYC have free tutoring for many subjects after school. The catch is, you have to give up some of your free time to attend that tutoring, and clearly the ghetto kids are not sufficiently motivated to do that.
So DeBlASSio and his new brother-from-another-mother schools chancellor "La Raza" Carranza are trying to ruin these exceptional schools because both are inflexibly tied into their Commie agendas. Can't be anyone exceptional nor anyone abysmal; everyone must be the same: mediocre.
If he were truly concerned about increasing black, Hispanic and low income attendees, he would role out free or reduced tutoring for the entrance exams to promising 7th and 8th graders. OF course, if the kids minority didn’t show up, that would be racist, too. But poor Asian would be there for the opportunity