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Re: NY Times oddly worried that too many Asians go to Stuyvesant

Posted by Concourse Express on Mon Feb 27 16:36:38 2012, in response to Re: NY Times oddly worried that too many Asians go to Stuyvesant, posted by 3-9 on Mon Feb 27 15:35:06 2012.

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IAWTP, especially if the SHSAT contains a fair amount of "g-loading" (which I'm not sure it does; haven't found anything definitive via Google). Even so, some of the remarks in the article speak volumes:

[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,”]

[The school’s parent coordinator, Harvey Blumm, said that when he visited middle schools whose enrollments were overwhelmingly black and Latino, it was not uncommon to find students who had never heard about the specialized high school exam; or to meet students who had signed up for the exam, but had never thought of taking a practice test or prep course — something common among white and Asian students; or to have guidance counselors tell him that Stuyvesant “isn’t for our kids.”]

It's tough enough to get in, but the notion that the exam is "biased" plus cats discouraging the kids from even trying certainly doesn't help.

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