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“… newly released statistics from the US Dept of Labor for the third quarter of 2020 undermine this narrative. Asian women have now surpassed white men in weekly earnings...These outcomes cannot exist in a society suffused with misogyny and racism.” quillette.com/2020/12/22/a-p… 
The attack on merit in education, seeking to kill objective tests like the SAT and #SHSAT in favor of subjective holistic factors, are intended to hurt immigrants.
"Asian women’s extraordinarily high earnings can be explained by several recorded cultural patterns. They have the highest education levels of all major groups. They are also most likely to major in the most high-paying fields in college (primarily STEM) ..."
The argument in NYC’s specialized HS was on a single test #SHSAT. However the attacks on all the other schools around the country made it crystal clear that it was never about a single test. 1/
The single test has been used since the 1930s. It was used when Hecht Calandra was past in 1971. The largest of the 3 HS was majority black and Hispanic for over two decades using this single test. This single test was never a problem until Asians became majority. 2/
With immigration picking up in the 1970s, poor, non-Engl speaking Asian students became a growing group relying on public schools. To escape the zip code of their immig communities, they aspired for these #SHSAT schools. 3/
“...White supremacy! How!? ... Asian students are double the population of white students, how is that white supremacy? Simple, Asians are white-adjacent.” asian-dawn.com/2020/10/26/bla…
Many Asians are immigrants, finding our way in a new country with no social capital. We simply ask for equal opportunity. Anti-Asian racism has intensified in education. Merit-based admissions have given Asian students the chance to earn spots at these top schools. 1/
The high number of Asian students at these public HS has become unacceptable. Something “must” be wrong if outcomes don’t mirror the population. “Asian immigrant supremacy”? — no, we are now called white-adjacent so that the claim of white supremacy can still be touted. 2/
In case you were listening to me on the radio with @leoniehaimson here are links to things I mentioned.
The Standards for Educational testing, some of which the #SHSAT violates.
New York Performance Standards Consortium | NYC schools that skip standardized tests have higher graduation rates hechingerreport.org/nyc-schools-th…
I wonder what y'all think about the term "meritocracy" in light of the #metoo movement and with the latest college admissions scandals and the NYC specialized high schools tests equity diversity controversy right now. #SHSAT
Did/Do I have more "worth" or "merit" than anyone else? I don't think so. But I was and am still defined by the fact that I went to Columbia & Brooklyn Tech b4 that: people take stock in that. That's why this #SHSAT convo is so impt for me. I have enormous pride & guilt in that.
I don't think I deserve more privileges or titles than anyone else. Sure, I worked damn hard as a kid, but that was my poverty mindset, that I would be a nobody and still poor working-class if I didn't get my family out of poverty. That was an intense mindset for a kid. #shsat
My opinion about the #SHSAT changed when I became a teacher. So many things affect education of a student, from stable home life, employment for families, resources, violence, expectations of ppl in communities, the turnover in neighborhood schools. Education reflects all that.
Then I saw maps showing the vast segregation of NYC. @nytimes race map is from 2015. @businessinsider income nap from 2014. This is the real reason why our education system in NYC- the legacy of racism, segregation and resulting denial of resources to neighborhoods. It's stark.
My Asian American people will ask, why, as low-income people, do we succeed & black & Latinx people don't? Many of us whom are EAST Asian (lighter skin and who are benefactors of colorism) did NOT inherit the legacy of racist segregation policies in the way Black folk did. #SHSAT
