Attacking Test-In Schools Is Anti-Asian

New York Post ^ | May 15, 2021

[nickcarraway]

On Wednesday, a handful of students — including a couple of Brooklyn Tech kids — demonstrated against the specialized high school entrance exam in front of Stuyvesant HS in Lower Manhattan. Teens Take Charge, the group sponsoring the event, chose Stuyvesant as the venue because it is 70 percent Asian and this year just eight black students did well enough on the test to win entry.

What made this affair sad, besides the low turnout, was that The New York Times and NY1 took the rally seriously — thinking this somehow represents a majority opinion. Democratic politicians also pretend that the existence of elite schools, and the tests required to enter them, is a problem. During Thursday’s mayoral debate, only Eric Adams and Kathryn Garcia (a Stuyvesant grad) stood up for the entrance exam.

The problem is not the test. It’s a sign of the larger problem of too many underperforming elementary and middle schools in our city — and the absence of Gifted & Talented classes — in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

[Hambone 1934]

I’ll bet their kids don’t get dumbed down crap..Just middle class folks and their kids

[roadcat]

The problem is not the test.

It's all about the schools that feed into the high school. Underperforming elementary and middle schools. It's about culture, the lack of performing blacks and latinos in the elementary and middle schools - due to the lack of emphasis by their families on education. And that is not the fault of Asians and whites.

[Tennessee Nana]

They should be glad 8 black students made it...

[The Great RJ]

I pity those Black students who have the capability to excel academically. They are trapped in under performing schools, but worse still experience the peer pressure in a woke Black culture that does not value education and sees academic excellence as racist.