Posted on 03/23/2019 6:46:32 PM PDT by EinNYC
De Blasio should create ‘De Blasio Academy of Basketball Playing’, then that would have 100% blacks in it...
Is anyone going to investigate Mizz DeBlobbio to make her account for the 850 mil she disappeared with no accounting for where it went?
I do believe that this four star high school segregation drama is the cover up for Mis Werner’s duplicity and theft.
“When you have 75% of the black kids in the city being born out of wedlock, with no father in the picture, you do not have a very good chance of having disciplined hard-working focused students as a result. “
Waycist, waycist !!!..... LOL
Truth hurts....
No lo sweato Senor...Same congressional folks who INVESTIGATED Hitlery taking care of this MATTER !
I feel sorry for every African-American New York City student who hereafter gets admitted to Stuyvesant High School.
Di Blasio has tainted their academic record, creating the question of whether they deserved admission to Stuyvesant, or not, and if they really did deserve it, on academic merit alone, will others believe it was not merit but merely affirmative action. Those who did/do make it in on academic merit alone will have to work doubly hard in their careers to prove themselves. They can say “thank you Mayor Di Blasio” for making their professional experience more difficult.
One only has to look at the record. It is not “whites” or “the rich” who achieve a majority of the admissions to Stuyvesant High School. It is students from the many New York City “Asian-American” communities.
So, how does Stuyvesant differ from most colleges of science and engineering in the U.S.? It doesn’t. There too the majority of students who make the hard academic standards of the highest science degree programs are also students of “Asian-American” or Asian descent.
That is not “segregation” even though it does say something about the society. But that “something” is just what are Asian parents and students doing more of, as a group, that other groups of parents and students are NOT doing; that gets Asian-American students more qualified for science related studies.
Whenever speaking of “disparities” in the demographics at some level of education, the actual causes of those “disparities” are in the state of education given or obtained BEFORE the student gets to that level.
Therefor, if there “ought to be” more of some demographic group at some certain education venue, the “solution” is to address what is or is not being done, or achieved, in their education to prepare them for that venue.
For that New York City K-12 education would have to address what is not being done, or not being achieved in kindergarten through junior high school, such that some demographic groups are not completing junior high school with academic achievements that have prepared them for the standards required to be admitted to the specialized (mostly science related) high schools.
UNFORTUNATELY efforts by the education establishment alone will NOT meet goals to satisfy those demanding “equal education attainment”, because social factors with families and the students alone will be determining those outcomes as much as anything the education institution does.
There is likely not anyone one of us that cannot admit that majority of where we failed in education was from a lack of sufficient efforts on our own part, more than anything else.
“Numbers” of past admissions is not as important as percentages. The “black” demographic of NYC has declined nearly 3 percentage points since 1990 and the Asian population has nearly doubled. Meanwhile, I suspect that the academic demands on and expectations of “black” students IN NYC has declined since 1990 to today, due to social attitudes.
Well, the results are “massive segregation” if are using the word “segregation” properly. Same for college basketball. Segregation simply means separation. I know the word has come to mean deliberate separation which is what the mayor is implying about H.S. admissions. If blacks and Latinos don’t/can’t pass the admissions test, they won’t be a part of the student body. Simple as that. The mayor is saying that having more blacks and Latinos and fewer whites and Asians is more important than having first-rate public high schools whose diplomas actually mean something.
I was proud of the people in my unit, and consider that to have been one of my best assignments in my entire career.
Exactly.
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