Posted on 04/08/2013 4:36:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
New York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright students to become behavior problems.
Recent statistics on the students who passed the examination to get into Stuyvesant High School raise troubling questions that are unlikely to receive the kind of serious answers they deserve.
These successful applicants included 9 black students, 24 Latino students, 177 white students and 620 Asian Americans.
Since this is definitely not the ethnic makeup of the general population of New York City, we can expect to hear the usual sort of comments from those who are in the business of being indignant and offended.
The most common of these comments is that the tests are "unfair." That is of course possible, but it is also possible that the groups themselves are different. Yet only the first possibility is allowed to be mentioned, in an age when race can be discussed only with pious hypocrisy and obligatory lies.
However shocked some people may be by the ethnic breakdown among students who passed the test to get into Stuyvesant High School, similar disparities can be found among students from different ethnic backgrounds in other countries around the world. Back in the decade of the 1960s, students from the Chinese minority in Malaysia earned 20 times as many Bachelor of Science degrees as students from the Malay majority.
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As usual..right on point!
Everyone is going down the drain because of fashionable racial rhetoric.
Students who study at the library on a Saturday night learn more.
Unfortunately, we are at a stage where the interests of race hustlers is to cry "unfair" at the tests — and they have a lot more political clout than black Tiger Moms have. So long as the rest of us are silenced by political correctness, racial progress on that front is unlikely.
And who, it might be asked, enforces political correctness? We know the answer - journalism. Members of the Associated Press.People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch 10The AP newswire has been an ongoing virtual meeting of the members of the AP since before the Civil War. What else would you expect but that AP journalism would by now be little else besides a conspiracy against the public? And how else would you expect that to manifest itself, if not in a propaganda campaign against the people who make America work?
Liberals stunned!
Well said my FRiend and so true. For many years the AP and now the MSM have advanced the liberal agenda against conservatism and capitalism.
I am often reminded that Dr. Sowell has a firm grasp of the obvious.
Unfortunately, his voice is most often lost in the wilderness of our Politically Correct Popular Culture society.
Yep
Political Correctness, basically, is the perpetuation of lies and the punishment of truth telling.
Hmmm... wonder where that originates?
Could it be... Satan?
“However shocked some people may be by the ethnic breakdown among students who passed the test to get into Stuyvesant High School, similar disparities can be found among students from different ethnic backgrounds in other countries around the world. Back in the decade of the 1960s, students from the Chinese minority in Malaysia earned 20 times as many Bachelor of Science degrees as students from the Malay majority.”
Culture counts. What a surprise - there are differences.
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