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COLOR-BARRED STUDENT SHUT OUT BY SCHOOL'S RACE QUOTA
NY Post ^ | Junem25, 2007 | DAN MANGAN

Posted on 06/25/2007 7:27:12 AM PDT by Maceman

June 25, 2007 -- A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school - solely because she's of Indian descent. "I feel bad because I would have gotten in if I was white," Nikita Rau lamented over her failed bid to attend the Mark Twain School, IS 239, in Coney Island, a magnet school for gifted students.

It turns out Mark Twain - unlike all but one other city public school - admits students according to racial quotas established in 1974 by a federal judge who ordered the school's desegregation.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: admissions; class; discrimination; india; indianamericans; magnetschools; politicallycorrect; quotas; racism; viniusinvictus
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To: Dan Evans

You guessed wrong. I am saying that academic merit is only part of the process. Extracurriculars, interests, talents, and other things can legitimately be factored.

I attended and graduated from a private, Jesuit, all-scholarship, hyper-competitive high school in NYC. The first part of the evaluation was a special standardized entrance exam they hosted. Then they interviewed many candidates, and then evaluated a wide variety of info on each applicant to come to their final class.

Many talented people were rejected. The evaluation process involves much more than academic merit and test scores.

This has nothing at all to do with legacies.


61 posted on 06/25/2007 12:14:20 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
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To: HitmanLV
Extracurriculars, interests, talents, and other things can legitimately be factored.

But those things are merit-based. You can develop interests and talents regardless of your race or parents. It is a far cry from excluding someone from school based on skin color.

The issue is moot though because we both know that a lot of colleges are going to figure ways to use these rules to discriminate by race. The only way to stop it is to get rid of public funding of schools.

62 posted on 06/25/2007 12:25:18 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: HitmanLV

Regis?


63 posted on 06/25/2007 12:28:08 PM PDT by Roccus (Dealing with politicians IS the War On Terror!)
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To: CindyDawg

My half Hispanic and brilliant son did not get into the Academy of American Studies with his 99 in social studies. I phone the school for an explanation and the dean said something about the “computer choosing the students”. How can a school be ranked second in the borough if a computer “randomly” chooses the students? I am irate over the whole thing.


64 posted on 06/25/2007 12:31:58 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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To: Maceman
I go even one better. I write in "Native American," since I was born here

Good. I've always had a problem with that particular category. If an American with parents from Asia and Europe isn't native to America, what country is he native to? What country is Tiger Woods native to?

65 posted on 06/25/2007 12:32:23 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: juliej
How can a school be ranked second in the borough if a computer “randomly” chooses the students?

I seriously doubt if it was a random decision. In schools and in public hiring, admissions offices are often dominated by members of a particular race. When blacks run things they often discriminate against Hispanics and likewise Hispanics against Blacks.

66 posted on 06/25/2007 12:39:38 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: CindyDawg

Probably...I live in New York city and whites are pretty much a minority now. I really can`t think of any school or neighborhood where whites (or caucasians) are not a minority except for the upper and east sides of Manhattan.

For example my neighborhood is mainly Hispanic with some Turkish, Korean, and just about every other creed thrown in. In my apartment building which is 5 stories high, 4 apartments on each floor, the only people who are white are me, my girlfriend and this guy George who lives on the 5th floor. The rest are mostly hispanic, one black family, one Korean family, and one Turkish. 30 years or so ago it use to be mainly Irish and some German.


67 posted on 06/25/2007 12:40:59 PM PDT by Screamname (On this date in history; Al Gore invents the Algorithm)
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To: Maceman

This shows how rotten these racial things are. The people who ordered them are evil. The people who support them are evil (dems and other socialists).


68 posted on 06/25/2007 12:41:10 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: jdsteel

They should go! When it was started I assume the reason was to prevent prejudice, racism, exclusivism, but now it is doing the exact opposite of that! It`s completely outdated and ridiculous. There are so many different races now in NYC the whole concept is ridiculous.


69 posted on 06/25/2007 12:46:42 PM PDT by Screamname (On this date in history; Al Gore invents the Algorithm)
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To: El Cid

“This isn’t the Balkans.”

Not yet but we are getting close. If we continue with the invasion and massive third world legal immigration it won’t be very much longer.


70 posted on 06/25/2007 12:48:38 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Maceman
"It could hurt her chances of going to Harvard, Yale or Princeton."

Maybe that`s a good thing. She could go to another school, get an real education, and save money to boot.

71 posted on 06/25/2007 12:50:02 PM PDT by Screamname (On this date in history; Al Gore invents the Algorithm)
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To: Maceman

I feel for her! :-(

When I was teaching years ago at Dallas, I wanted to transfer to a school closer to the Plano area where I moved after marriage. One school had 2 openings that would have been perfect for me...when I talked to the principal though, she told me off the record, “You *are* perfect for the job, but I can’t hire you because you aren’t hispanic and you aren’t black—school quotas require me to hire only from those ethnic groups...” She was pretty upset about that. I was furious when I learned they never filled the 2 openings and had multiple substitutes in those two classes the rest of the school year!!! >:-(

Quotas...bad. All around.


72 posted on 06/25/2007 12:58:37 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Indians are considered caucasian (my husband is from India) but their actual skin color can be a variety of shades. My husband is about as dark as Dennis Haysbert (President David Palmer on 24 and also on those Allstate commercials)http://tinyurl.com/3yvmrm

I never have figured out that whole color-ethnicity quota thing myself. I’m with MLK on the ‘judge someone on who they are, not what they look like’ philosophy.


73 posted on 06/25/2007 1:03:29 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
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To: PeteB570
Well - every now and again I would check the “Other” box and fill in Nordic-American. :-)

I claim Native American. I was born here and that makes me a 'native.'

74 posted on 06/25/2007 1:15:46 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Indians are honorary whites. Most of them are


75 posted on 06/25/2007 1:21:11 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: misterrob

Wow...the “Affirmative action” chickens are coming home to roost!!!


76 posted on 06/25/2007 1:37:57 PM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!!))
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To: PeteB570

I’ve filled in Saami-American.


77 posted on 06/25/2007 1:42:49 PM PDT by magslinger (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
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To: Dan Evans

When did Hispanic become a race?


78 posted on 06/25/2007 1:43:38 PM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!!))
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To: KarlInOhio

Or what if she selected for herself a category which confers advantages? Is there a specific test to assess the accuracy of her selection?


79 posted on 06/25/2007 1:46:00 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Dan Evans

This is a very “liberal” school - I noticed all the Amnesty International stuff on the wall during a visit and I am suspicious of their admissions “policy”.


80 posted on 06/25/2007 2:03:52 PM PDT by juliej (vote gop)
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