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Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Feb 29 16:25:49 2012, in response to Re: NY Times oddly worried that too many Asians go to Stuyvesant, posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Feb 29 15:49:51 2012. Are you saying the genetics plays a part here? eh?It might. Culture probably plays a bigger role. Being from Queens, I can see the difference in minority culture, compared to the Asians and Jews of Flusing and Forest Hills compared to the Italian culture of Ridgewood that I am more familiar with. Are you saying the Blacks and Hispanic kids are somehow dumb? If you read the article the way any normal person would you would see that is states that Blacks and Hispanics were not pushed into taking the exams OR advised to take prep courses. If they did, the story would be significantly different. Get it? eh? The results would not be much different and people would be looking for other excuses. Everyone knows about prep courses. Anyone can enroll. Demonized? that's a rather HARSH word there....which the NYTIMES does not use there. They are merely pointing out that Blacks and Hispanics are at a disadvantage because the schools and the guidance personnel DO NOT stear these kids in the right direction to achieve success on these exams through prep course and some cases, they just flat out don't even care to mention that such an exam even exist for them to take it. You really SHOULD point that HARSH FINGER at the schools where these Black and Hispanic kids are attending! LOL @ "disadvantaged". That's one of my favorites. "At risk" is another favorite of mine. Everyone knows about the prep courses. Anyone saying otherwise must be lying. Sure.....all the folks living in poor ass areas of NYC are just dying to spend their money on those concerts....what a loser you really turned out to be. Take for example East New York, Brooklyn. Take a walk around there and you won't find 2 dozen or so prep course academies like you would in Flushing. You don't see academies in Italian neighborhoods either. I'm not crying about it. The academies are in Flushing because there are enough kids in the community who seek intellectual activities after school. The Flushing kids are middle-class kids whose parents who chose to enroll them in courses. That's the culture in Queens' Asian and Jewish communities and that's why their kids succeed. Good for them. I don't blame them for succeeding. I blame myself for my failures. Where are "dozens" of academies in Flushing? And if there was a demand in other communities, they would open there too. |
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