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Admission to Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech should be changed so that the percentage of each ethnicity is exactly equal to their share of the city population. The percentage of disabled, of left-handed, of those with blood type B, of those with parents who own bakeries, etc, should also precisely replicate the city demographic. These schools are paid for by taxpayers' money, hence they should precisely represent the city.
All the complaints about academic rigor are imperialist and racist. A question like what is the area of a circle with radius 2.11 will OBVIOUSLY have a different answer depending on the socioeconomic circumstances of the person taking the test. To insist on only one correct answer is the way that White Males privilege Establishment learning in order to put down people of color and the LGBT and progressive segments of society.
Not sure how implementing racist educational policies against Asians will work. There's been an implicit quota on Asians in the Ivies for the past 20 years already and what has been gained from it? Everyone knows about affirmative action by now and guess what if you're in the minority group who's gotten preferential treatment people are bound to discount your achievements. This is a slap in the face to those in the groups who didn't need the preferential treatment as well as those who thought they were going to achieve something but were filtered out because of their race.
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Well, the Ivies have their multibillion dollar endowments still, so its not like they've been harmed.
With that being said, where are all the Asian American CEOs, politicians, etc? Having good grades is great, but there are certainly a lot of other factors involved in a successful career.
But the black illegitimacy rate in 1963, according to Moynihan, was already 23.6%, while white illegitimacy was 3.07%. Both rates had increased by 50% from 1940. The increase in illegitimacy is colorblind. It's just that blacks started with a higher baseline.
I think the reasons for the increase in illegitimacy aren't necessarily identical for each race, but there are some common contributing factors. One of the biggest contributors, I think, is that when the government noticed the increase in illegitimacy in the 1960s, they decided that they'd solve the problem of illegitimacy by subsidizing it. Of course, when you subsidize something you get more of it.
Illegitimacy has grown higher among whites these days. Basically, marriage is more for middle class people. Among the poorest people relationships tend to be a lot more unstable. The number one reason for divorce is financial reasons.
No there is only one answer and if you can't pass the test you dont get in and it should stay that way. Do you want future nuclear physicist to be of a lower standard? I think not. You only want the most highly intelligent. Not all of course want to be nuclear physicist but we expect great things of Specialized High School grads in whatever field they go into.
Lowering the standard can only help so much. Go ask if NASA or Google, or a top investment bank if they're willing to lower their standards. At the end of the day, the product of our education system would need to not only compete with kids from different parts of the country, but increasingly talents from abroad who go to the top graduate programs in this country. There's not as much racial bias in the graduate programs since most Americans schools have plenty of seats to spare and foreign students pay full tuition all upfront ($$>all other motives)
You know I've always felt that they should just increase the number of those specialized schools. If you create a few more in each borough, guess what the Brooklyn Asian kid who scored high enough to get into Bronx Science probably won't go and will just go to one in closer proximity in Brooklyn and because of the larger amount of schools and how they are spread out around the five boroughs that might create more racial diversification. However, one down side of this is that all the non-specialize schools would get worst from this massive brain drain and there might be more b**tching and whining. But at least the demographic stats might not look as lopsided as they do now. Another option would be to just undo all the de-zoning of the high schools that was done over the past 15 years. That way you go to school with your neighbors and there's no prestige in that so hopefully no more whining about how my little Jimmy the genius is more deserving than Bruce who just studies all day long because Asians should just all go home.
Well, the Ivies have their multibillion dollar endowments still, so its not like they've been harmed.
With that being said, where are all the Asian American CEOs, politicians, etc? Having good grades is great, but there are certainly a lot of other factors involved in a successful career.
Hispanics are named among the under acheiving group, even though as usual the focus is mostly on black dysfunction. Well dysfunction is a spreading problem and increasing numbers of poor whites in rural and small town America are falling into this trap.
Indeed the NYT had an article about the problems of heroine addition in Vermont, which is one of teh whitest states in this country.
Males who come from poor (non Asian) backgrounds are doing poorly, regardless of race.
The jobs that pay well generally have some sort of barrier to entry. Basically to earn any comfortable amount of money, especially in a major city you have to be well above the average candidate for that job.
Well, the Ivies have their multibillion dollar endowments still, so its not like they've been harmed.
With that being said, where are all the Asian American CEOs, politicians, etc? Having good grades is great, but there are certainly a lot of other factors involved in a successful career.
There are tons of asian small business ceos, if that counts
or if that does not count, many wives of mega CEOs are asian.
Doing well in politics and business has to do with other skills not really taught in schools. You have to be good at social networking in a very political way.
There are tons of asian small business ceos, if that counts
Where are they in the Fortune 1,000? There have been two Asian American governors recently in Louisiana and South Carolina. (Both of Indian descent). There's also an underrepresentation of Asian Americans in the media.
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