re: Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots

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The problem for NYC politicians here is there is no easy target to blame. Hard to demonize low to middle income Asians whose kids work their asses off and parents sacrifice, so they can ace the entrance test.

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that is ultimately the big issue

not just with these admissions, but with Harvard and other elite schools past high school. that's why a group of asian-Americans are suing Harvard

it also shows that (1) politicians don't consider asians to be true minorities and (2) when leftist politicians speak of "diversity", it typically means inclusion of black people (and sometimes brown people, but they're also relegated to a 2nd class minority status slightly above asians). they stick with the same generic buzz words, though

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The selective enrollment schools are impressive. There is a tremendous amount of effort put into the math/English testing beginning in 3rd grade so students can get into a good middle school then a good high school.

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let me just use this comment as a way to digress into another somewhat related sociopolitical topic

when people bitch about "free college", they don't understand that the countries who offer this have educational tracks similar to the natural progression listed above. can anyone imagine the outrage here if we adopted that sort of a system? sure you get free college but black and brown kids are cut off from college in elementary school

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Sounds merit based based because this wouldn't have happened if race was a consideration. I don't have a problem with that. Study harder.

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This. No one owes you a spot in anything because of how much melanin your skin has or does not have.

Sounds like someone is actually trying to educate students

It appears to me after numerous years in education that the ever growing divide between those experiencing succes in academia and those who were failing had a lot to do with resources. Families with more money, deeper ties to community, more free time, all have advantages.

This isn’t going to be popular here, but rigging the system to give people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to certain things that access might be needed to prevent large contingents of have nots within specific populations.
It’s very easy to claim that a merit based system is the most democratic on face value, but let’s not pretend that when running this “fair race” multiple people are given a head start and others are given a serious handicap. There had to be a common sense way of acknowledging the ways to help without destroying all that is fair in the world.
I find it odd that the people in Louisiana who more than people anywhere else scream for merit based rewards and hate anything that even sniffs of affirmative action when the Lousiana culture is at its core full of nepotism and cronyism. People on this site brag that LSU law is the best in the state, because it’s connections will get you a job in state better than any other law school all without acknowledging that 50% of the population my parents age were not even allowed to apply to the institution. “The who you know, not what you know” almost a source of pride aomongst people in Louisiana.
All playing fields aren’t level and they haven’t been for a long time. Changing that is gonna take some flexibility amongst everyone.

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All playing fields aren’t level and they haven’t been for a long time. Changing that is gonna take some flexibility amongst everyone.

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Realistically, this is never going to happen.

Those 7 should feel extremely proud of themselves.

Is admission to this school strictly test score based?

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I'm confused and dumb and from a small town in the Midwest. How are these considered public schools?

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if this were the LHSAA they'd be select schools

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and had to compete only against whites and not everybody amirite

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I dont know what lily white school you went to but living and going to school in East Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge i can assure you that wasnt true. Matter of fact most of my schools i was a minority:

Westdale in BR
La Belle Aire in BR
Port Allen High in WBR
Rougon Elementary in Pointe Coupee