[reaganaut1]

The Bell Curve strikes again.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Admission is merit based at eight schools? What in the world is wrong with NYC allowing that to happen? What an atrocity. Just look at what happened to the racial makeup os Stuyvesant High.

[hinckley buzzard]

Blacks are so busy hating on Whitey that they are too obtuse to see that Asians and Hispanics are eating their lunch.

Just illustrates how hatred is self-destructive in the end.

[6SJ7]

Asians, on the other hand, make up 72.5 percent of Stuyvesant’s student body...

Might be due in part to the fact that most Asian families take the education of the children as Job One.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Those Asian students aren't playing fair! Why should they be admitted just because they work harder than other students? < /moonbattery>

[GeronL]

Does “asian” also include Muslims?

[BobL]

What’s more interesting to me is the black numbers. They climbed from 1970 t 1975, during the period when Affirmative Action meant non-discrimination. Then they plummeted even with the quotas from 1975 on. Also, enlarging of the welfare state and further disintegration of the black family didn’t help either. What does that mean? We Ain’t Getting Nowhere with liberal policies, we’re going backwards now.

[FoxInSocks]

And 59 percent of students are boys, and 41 percent are girls.

Year-to-date attendance is 97.8 percent. 97 to 99 percent of the students graduate, and the dropout rate is consistently less than 0.5 percent.

What are the important numbers here? Yes, it’s a rhetorical question . . .

[bkopto]

It’s all explained here, in statistical, data-driven, nonPC terms:

http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/

[SharpRightTurn]

“parents and educators alike find the demographics troubling”

Then go to your encounter group and emote for awhile. That oughta do it for you.

[warsaw44]

Years ago I worked for a company in Boston and one of my duties was to make bank deposits each day. This required me to board the local mass transit trolly that ran from my office to downtown Boston.

Much further up the track was Boston College High school. At the time the deposits were ready each day, the school's children would be getting out and going home. The trolleys would be filled with these high school students.

These trains / trolleys are fairly large and each one would be segregated by the students themselves. In one end of the train the black students would be screaming, yelling, running around, making out on the verge of intercourse and rarely did anyone of them have a backpack or carry a book.

In the front of the train were the Asian students. All of them reading, studying, each one with a backpack crammed full with books. Sometimes you would see one or two of them quietly speaking to each other, books open.

I would see this every day, week after week.

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One of the main stations the train ran through was Coley Station. many of the black students got off at this stop and quite often I was fights, sometimes huge fights. I remember an MBTA officer ( also black ) telling me “ Every day...every damned day they do this ...”

Is there any other segment in our society that frowns on education?

[Krankor]

Her mother, Annmarie Miller, a nursing assistant at a hospital in the Bronx, recalled a cousin’s reaction when she mentioned Rudi’s pick: “You have to be Chinese or Indian to get in there.” A co-worker, also black, “said the exam is built to exclude blacks because it’s heavy on math, and black people can’t do math,” Mrs. Miller said.

It's amazing the author even put this in the article. This goes to show how racist and prejudiced some blacks are. I wonder how many of the Asian students are actually Chinese. And it's frightening even blacks think blacks are too stupid to do well in math.

[LdSentinal]

When I went to Stuyvesant back in the 90's, Asians were a little over 50% of the student population. Now, 72.5%? Geez.

I don't know how I got in - I just got lucky on the admissions test.

[Clock King]

The Culture Curve. There is no Bell Curve.

[Boogieman]

Cry me a river. I attended a high school where I, as a white student was in the minority, and nobody ever seemed concerned about our plight, even though it was one of our city’s “flagship schools”. I’m also pretty comfortable speculating that, nowadays, it is a lot harder being a white kid in a sea of black kids than it is being a black kid in a sea of white kids.

[Jack Hammer]

“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.”

The race pimps will find a way to f*** that up.

[ken5050]

Suggest, if you have the time, to read the comments..over 130..on the Times website..very interesting, especially if one considers the what the Times’ target audience is assumed to be...one can deduce that conservatives CAN find a receptive audience in liberal areas..

[Right Wing Assault]

Another teacher and I from the midwest visited Stuyvesant about 12 years ago to see their science facilities and courses offered. (We couldn't find the place since it is about 10-stories high, and in our opinion couldn't possibly be a high schoool. Inside, there was an escalator. It also had a view of the Statue of Liberty from some windows.)

Here it is in the foreground, complete with pedestrian bridge. And escalators.

When we came to the school and saw the kids going in, we wondered how the school could excel based on the nasty looking kids going in. They looked like the dregs of teenage society. We were almost afraid to go in.

After being greeted by numerous smiling, polite students who were not yelling, screaming, running around, using obscenities, and who were happy to talk to us and help us, we were puzzled. We later asked a teacher why the kids dressed like gang members. The reply was, "If they look out of place in the city, they get beat up, so they have to blend in to survive."

[Rooivalk]

Don’t be fooled into thinking that Asians are super brains. All they do is practice how to take tests and APPEAR smart. When the chips are down they are just mindless clogs in the machine

[Robwin]

Ok, as I understand it whites make up 24% of this school’s student population. I assume “whites” includes Jews, a great many of whom live in NYC and who at least used to set great store by education, much as the Asians do today. So I must ask that given whites are outnumbered 3:1, has there been a major cultural shift among Jews in NYC of late?

[James C. Bennett]

Dig into the comments on the NYT article, and you find this gem, LOL!

LauraCalifornia

FLAG

“I am a white mother to a black child. The everyday racism of her grammar school is utterly shocking. The teachers are unconscious about their years of bias — they call on white boys most, then Asian girls and boys, then white girls, then brown kids — boys before girls. This has been the pattern since kindergarten. Almost all of the kids of color are sent to “resource room,” where they are given candy and video games while the rest of the class works on math. (Some boys from India escape this fate). There is one African-American teacher (a woman)

in a school with 600 kids. The “selection” for academic excellence begins early. It is a scandal.”