Posted on 03/24/2015 10:00:53 PM PDT by Cronos
..New York has nine specialised high schools, of which eight admit students using the city’s Specialist High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). The education they offer rivals that of private schools that charge $40,000 a year. The high schools are free. The most popular, Stuyvesant, sends roughly 25% of its graduates to the Ivy League or other top colleges. The school’s unofficial mantra is “Sleep, study, socialise: pick two.” It admits 4% of test-takers, pickier than Harvard.
New York’s Democratic mayor, Bill de Blasio thinks the SHSAT favours parents who can afford tutors. He wants to “broaden” (ie, relax) the admissions criteria, to help poorer black and Hispanic families.
The SHSAT also faces a legal challenge. The NAACP, the country’s biggest civil-rights legal defence fund, joined others in 2012 to file a suit demanding changes in admissions procedures. New York City’s public schools, the suit claims, are among the most racially segregated in the country
... Asians make up more than 70% of pupils at Stuyvesant; blacks and Hispanics combined make up 3%, and falling. White pupils took 80% of places in 1970; now it is less than 25%.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Suggesting that Asian Americans should attend colleges in their countries of origin instead of polluting elite American institutions with their presence is pure KKK.
Get to the back of the race-hustler line.
What prior languish, happened- in that supposed- 30 year interlude of Red Mao imposition upon the Chinese folks?
Well, three that you named, starting with the first!
Smart and wisdom are not the same.
Communism has done a lot of damage.
For “smart” people to be productive and innovative, they have to have freedom. Allowed to challenge how things have always been done without being crushed for it. Being rewarded based on results not seniority. Asian cultures have been very unfriendly on that front.
Odd that someone who thinks Asian Americans shouldn't have the same rights should call anyone a race hustler.
Perhaps in prehistory, during a time no one remembers. Chinese thinkers of 2300 years ago do not compare favorably against the Greeks of that time.
Mr Tesla had low self discipline? You are a moron, of the lowest order. Congrats. Yer mammy&pappy, should be proud!
Hey genius, is English your first language?
“I’d argue that genius and self discipline are critical to being productive in a positive way but even that is no guarantee success. Take Nikola Tesla for example.”
Was it really necessary to go so vile and be so wrong at the same time?
No. So, your point is- that disparaging remarks are useful- in little brain world?
Apparently. Try hormone balancing. Or, perhaps- different medication.
It’s been a long time since i graduated Stuy but that entry test was chock full of questions that required thinking and not memorization.
Class of 72
Well, if you spoke English you would know that I was using Tesla as an example of genius, discipline and hard work because he’s simply an excellent example it.
But you have so little integrity and are so arrogant you can’t bring yourself to apologize for your foolish mistake.
So instead you double down on it.
Carry on...
Thanks.
What you just posted is illogical:
I don’t think anyone is smarter than anyone else...beat... “smart” anytime.
The Chinese monarchy collapsed in 1911. From 1911 to 1933, the empire was embroiled in civil war, as some generals attempted to establish their own nation states and others (like Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung) attempted to become head honcho of the overall empire. Japan invaded in 1933. The Sino-Japanese War continued until 1945, when the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings ended the war. Upon which the Soviets did their version of Lend Lease to the Communist Party (and Soviet agents in the State Department successfully curtailed aid to Nationalists), which overcame the Nationalist Party in 1949. For 30 years until 1979, the Chinese economy was run by central planners who decided where someone worked, what he wore, what he ate, what he drank and where he lived. That ended beginning in 1979. Basically for a 7-decade period beginning in 1911, and ending in 1979, China was either in the midst of all-out war or under the thumb of economic central planners. By comparison, for the same period, Taiwan and Hong Kong were relative oases of peace and economy sanity.
Japan advanced faster because the ancien regime, the Tokugawa Shogunate, was toppled in the mid-19th century, the civil war that ensued was settled relatively quickly, nobody invaded Japan, and the ensuing Meiji government did not attempt to implement Marxist economic central planning there. The Meiji government consolidated its power in 1868 and began opening up the economy to the world. The Communist Party consolidated its power in 1949 and began closing the economy and implementing central economic planning. In addition to China's 80-year lag in terms of basic political stability, the Communist Party tacked on another 30-year lag due to its imposition of utopian Marxist schemes. It's testament to the quality of the raw talent at hand that China's per capita industrial output is in the top half of nations today rather than near the very bottom where it was in 1979.
Good book report. Thank you.
I thought he said “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent Nikola Tesla.”
If a student is half Asian, do they only get half of the penalty on tests?
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