If I am reading this right (please click on link for the full story), a multimillionaire from the Hamptons wants to engage in social engineering of a school far from where she lives. Any impact will not be on her or any of her family, friends, or neighbors.
Brings to mind Tom Wolfe's essay, Radical Chic.
Oh, oh ... trouble is brewing:
"According to city statistics, 52.6 percent of NEST students in the 2004-5 school year were white, compared with 15.1 percent in public school citywide. At NEST, 18.9 percent of students qualified for free lunch, compared with 57.4 percent citywide. The school admits students based on factors including test scores, interviews, classwork and observed play sessions. "
We live in Fairfax VA so our kids could go to special programs for Gifted and Talented. Probably the best GT system in the country.
Very few black children but there are some. A LOT of Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans.
Egalitarians can't stand elitism. They want to level everybody to the least common denominator.
You misinterpret.
The school is a magnet school with children coming from all over the city. The parents of these children are generally quite well-off - multimillionaires, many of them, in their own right.
Not only does Mrs. Ross have the right to fund and to set up a charter school if she gets all the proper permissions, the city is entitled to do whatever it wants with its property.
It is a quarrel between two groups of very wealthy New Yorkers over how taxpayers' money should be spent.
Somebody will win, somebody will lose. Government is going to pick the winner, and the criteria will be "what benefits the political elite the most?"
The whole ridiculous Gifted & Talented thing is hoax, put together to make certain parents feel better about themselves. Flame away.
I wouldn't send my dog to a public school...
"When liberals collide."
Screw 'em all.