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.
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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.
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.
Regis?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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).
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.
“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.
Maybe that`s a good thing. She could go to another school, get an real education, and save money to boot.
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.
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.
I claim Native American. I was born here and that makes me a 'native.'
Indians are honorary whites. Most of them are
Wow...the “Affirmative action” chickens are coming home to roost!!!
I’ve filled in Saami-American.
When did Hispanic become a race?
Or what if she selected for herself a category which confers advantages? Is there a specific test to assess the accuracy of her selection?
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”.
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