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I’m Chinese American and of course I think using tests is the best and unbiased way to enroll students. The merit or content of character of a student is his or her grade and how well he masters what he was taught. But blacks don’t believe so. I understand where their argument come from. These two points of view are incompitable

The Asian parents' group has been putting up considerable resistance to Dumblassio's idiotic idea to not only scrap the "racist" test, but moreover, to reserve 25% of the seats in these precious elite schools for black and Hispanic students who failed the entrance exam. That means 25% of the students who passed the test and rightfully belong in those seats will be displaced, probably then to sit among low performing students who are fooling around in class and disrupting education for others in regular high schools, unless their parents can afford private schools. That would be a terrible shame.

And what of the black and Hispanic students placed into the elite high schools despite failing the entrance exam? I'll tell you exactly what will happen to them. They are woefully unprepared to read, write, and analyze at the extremely high level expected of students at these elite high schools. Many of the classes are conducted more at a college than a high school level and the students receive college credit for them. So the students who don't belong there in the first place will be frustrated. They will feel stupid that they cannot understand the teacher nor do well at the activities the other kids are galloping along doing. So they will act in the only way they know how to cope with the situation: they will act out and disrupt class for everyone. Then they don't have to feel inferior, because class is all messed up now, and no one is doing anything, not just them. Even though they should be subject to severe consequences for their behavior, DumblASSio has ruled that there are far too many minority students who are suspended or otherwise punished for misdeeds, so the schools will feel reluctant to mete out what the students really deserve as for punishment. So the other students will see that these kids can do whatever they want to do, with impunity. This is not a great example for them to stay on the straight and narrow either, kids being kids. After a few days of disrupting class, the black/Hispanic 25% will get bored doing it, and will simply cease attending class, where they feel dumb, and they will wander the halls, just as they did back in their regular schools, learning nothing and causing vandalism to school property. Meanwhile, the students forced out of their seats at this school, who were then shunted to a regular school, will languish instead of having the opportunity to use their sharp little brains to accomplish something.

This tragedy has been brought to you by DumblASSio Progressives & Co. and it's not, unfortunately, not just fiction. It's just a crying shame.