Posted on 02/25/2012 12:51:13 PM PST by reaganaut1
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When the bell rings and the school’s 3,295 students spill out of classrooms into the maze of hallways, escalators and stairs like ants in a farm, blacks stand out because they are so rare. Rudi was one of 64 black students four years ago when she entered Stuyvesant, long considered New York City’s flagship public school. She is now one of 40.
Asians, on the other hand, make up 72.5 percent of Stuyvesant’s student body (they are 13.7 percent of the city’s overall public school population), a staggering increase from 1970, when they were 6 percent of Stuyvesant students, according to state enrollment statistics. Back then, white students made up 79 percent of Stuyvesant’s enrollment; this year, they are 24 percent, and 14.9 percent systemwide.
Hispanic students are 40.3 percent of the system. Currently, they make up 2.4 percent of Stuyvesant’s enrollment, while blacks, who make up 32 percent of the city’s public school students, are 1.2 percent.
New York City has eight specialized high schools whose admission is based entirely on the results of an entrance exam, a meritocratic system that does not consider race or ethnicity.
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No one claims that the disparity is caused by overt discrimination. But in a school that is devised to attract the best of the best, parents and educators alike find the demographics troubling. It has become a question of perception as to who belongs.
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Many Stuyvesant students start preparing for the exam months, even years, in advance. There are after-school, weekend and summer classes run by large companies like Kaplan and Princeton Review, as well as by neighborhood outfits like Aim Academy, in the predominantly Chinese enclave of Flushing, Queens, and the Khan’s Tutorial branch in nearby Jackson Heights, home to thousands of families from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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My strategy was a mohawk, steel-toed combat boots and a bad attitude. Most of the time, they’d look for an easier target because they are usually cowards.
What I meant by average or below average student was brains not grades. Obviously you are very bright. Stupid people do not get good SATs. No amount of tricks or training will get them good scores. Raise them a few points, sure, but not any large amount. Sister John Thomas taught you to use the brains you already had.
Fascinating. Thanks!
I think you will find that whites with children for decades have been moving out of areas of NYC that you can reasonably get to Stuyvesant from. The reasons are the cost of living in the city and other lifestyle considerations. On the other hand, there are still a lot of first generation immigrant Asians living in tenement-like conditions who expect their children to work hard on academics.
That's rudimentary 7th grade stuff and you didn't see it till you went to college!?
You're a veritable walking indictment of your school system, wherever that was.
Good for you. If all true .. you made an incredible
strides to improve yourself, and God bless you. It
takes such persistence and drive to succeed, and it
sounds like you took it upon yourself to put in the
work and time to achieve your goals.
As a Catholic, I’m SO sick of the twisted and
perverse nun and priest snickers and jokes and
about the Catholic church, when, in addition to
all the outreach and giving to so many, millions
of youngsters have been set on the right course
for life in Catholic schools, and taught discipline,
how to learn and thereby insure their futures by
these mostly wonderful, caring selfless servants
(discounting the outliers who like all groups of
imperfect humans can have questionable personal
character/moral issues).
Of course, now Obama has to damage the Church
and her compassionate outreaches, along with
everything else good and holy in this nation to
bully it and bring it to its knees for the
fulfillment of his monstrous, despicable, radical
mission.
God, help us .. hear our prayers. If you pray,
please do.
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