Posted on 12/04/2019 1:32:24 AM PST by grundle
Beacon’s student population is about half white, a striking anomaly in a public school system that is nearly 70 percent black and Hispanic. Beacon is not a specialized high school — it has no admissions test — but its highly competitive admissions process requires students to assemble a portfolio of middle school work, admissions essays and high standardized test scores and grades. It is one of the most selective schools in New York: Last year, there were over 5,800 applications for 360 ninth-grade seats.
Many of the students who gathered on Monday said they realized how much help they received during the high school admissions process only once they got to Beacon and learned that other students did not have access to private tutors, parents who edited admissions essays or schools with enough guidance counselors to successfully shepherd students through the complex system.
“The abundance of privilege in our school is so universal that it usually goes unquestioned and unnoticed,” said Toby Paperno, a junior who is white and lives in Brooklyn.
Sadie Lee, an Asian-American Beacon sophomore who lives in Brooklyn, said she had benefited from the segregated system by getting help from her parents and her high-performing middle school during the application process.
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Some students walking out is a banal occurrence, but it's still a pretext for them to write about white people again I guess.
maybe these rich kids who know grew up to work at the NYT can go live in a real hood and stfu
Death is around the corner. There’s nothing you can do to make it any better or even stay the same.
Fine. Close all the public schools for high achieving students. Let them go to the schools in their neighborhoods. Then you will see real segregation as the parents who can force themselves to afford it will enroll their children in private schools. This will not be a race-based segregation. It will be driven by a desire to obtain a quality education for the child.
By the way, a 50% white student body is mostly in line with the city’s demographics. So whites are not over-represented in the student population. Rather, ask why the public school system is 70% Black and Hispanic; numbers way out of line with their demographic percentages. But, we probably already know the answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City?wprov=sfti1
“segregated school system...”
/double eyeroll
I wonder if they can name one place that needs to increase the percent of white people.
The school is NOT segregated. She twists and lies like all leftists.
She also reinvents the meaning of privilege — hard work and loving patents.
These white students are racist. If they were identifying as black, Puerto Rican or at least 1/1024’th Native American, the school would be much more diverse than it is.
>>Sadie Lee, an Asian-American Beacon sophomore who lives in Brooklyn, said she had benefited from the segregated system by getting help from her parents and her high-performing middle school during the application process.
So in other words she did the same things she’s complaining that other (white) students did.
Just wait until she applies to college and experiences discrimination because she is not black or brown. Smart Asians need not apply (per Big Higher Education policy).
What do we want?
Equality of Outcome!
When do we want it?
Now!
As long as they are citing statistics, I wonder what percentage of those accepted live in homes with both parents?
They should not be comparing enrollment to the percentage of minorities in the School district.
They should be comparing enrollment to the percentage of minorities THAT APPLIED.
That is the only way to get a fair assessment.
This issue will drive the last productive middle class/normals out of NYC; it really is a leftist dump.
...and the war on white people continues.
Indeed it is all around us; take HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ series for example. Blacks are the repressed heroes and all white men leads are like the racist Nazis or demented in some way.
The anti white man propaganda is worse or equivalent to the anti Jew propaganda of pre-war Germany.
The truly sad thing is that all the warnings from the so-called racists of our past were right. You can’t civilize some people or expect them to act in the same moral principles you do.
I keep seeing the word “parents” mentioned in the article. That, no doubt, is where it starts. Without parental support, most students will not seek out guidance counselor support.
As long as whites don’t push back, as long as whites ignore the assault, as long as whites bury their head in the sand. This kind of crap will not only continue but will get worse.
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