Posted on 09/30/2012 1:15:21 AM PDT by expat1000
I was pleasantly surprised (actually shocked is a better word) when the NAACP got all indignant because standards were to be lowered under a waiver received through NCLB so different subsets of students had different rates of passing to meet guidelines. It was actually surreal.
This is 100% targeted against east and south Asians and high-performing non-Asian immigrants (Arabs in no small part, but also former Soviet Union). Non-immigrant white people have become a very small part of the student bodies at Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech — they usually prefer to go to the elite private schools which are simultaneously more stylish and less competitive.
I will be interested to see if any Asian Democrats will say a single word in opposition to this.
And, if the tests are so unbalanced, why don’t the complainers show the tests and explain exactly where they are unbalanced. We are supposed to be one Nation, with “standards” in Education (note the capitalization) so a standardized test should be measuring the same things in everyone. So, where are we all falling down?
Don’t forget Nepalis! They’re discriminated against, too, while Tibetans aren’t!
There wouldn’t be such wailing and gnashing of teeth over the handful of functioning high schools if the general school level weren’t so crappy. Why don’t all these agitated activists go after the system that is producing a majority of unqualified students?
There is a commercial that plays here all the time.
It goes something like this:
“Whether you’re good at scratchin’, break dancing or video games, you’ve got what it takes to get into college.”
No mention of brains.
I went to Stuy HS in the early 50’s. The school had predominately Jewish students, over 60%, although they were a minority in the city. There were very few blacks but one I remember was near the top of the class. His father was a Dr. (good genes). Tom Sowell went there in the 40’s. Eric Holder and David Axelrod are graduates. The average SAT of the graduates is 1500. In truth the entrance test is an IQ test. There are over 130,000 students in NYC’s 8th grade(public, parochial, private). Teacher’s select the students they think have a chance of scoring high enough to get into one of the 7 or 8 specialized schools. About 30,000 take the test. Stuy is usually the first choice of the cities students( except is SI). Approximately 1,000 are enrolled each year. Statistically you need to have a 1% IQ
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