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YChooo for Full Return to Classrooms

27 Oct, 10 tweets, 3 min read

“...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/

We don’t look white, sound white and certainly don’t pass for being white anywhere. We have seen dramatic increases in anti Asian attacks because of COVID. The hard truth is that we will never pass for white. 3/

So calling us white-adjacent won’t stick. I couldn’t believe my ears when I began to hear brainwashed teenagers and truly privileged adults disparaging hard work. Mocking hard work as if it’s a dirty word — as if “hard work” is a new racist term. 4/

As we’ve seen in recent weeks, top HS around the country has killed comp admissions. These schools are not majority white but majority Asian. “Asian supremacy” doesn’t roll off the tongue as smoothly or sharply as “white supremacy” So the attack is on the merit system itself. 5/

The push for outcomes to look like the district or the city will for sure disadvantage Asians. In NYC, we are 16% of the public school system. What better way to oppress Asians at specialized HS than to seize on their minority status. That was De Blasio’s racist 7% plan. 6/

That turned out to be too transparently anti-Asian. So across the country, they’ve coordinated to simply overturn merit. Lottery sounds “fair” — giving equal chance to everyone. But what it really is —it’s intent, is to squash a fair chance for Asian students. 7/

Anti-merit school admission is designed with the intent to be anti-Asian and anti-immigrant. It’s meant to defeat the drive to work hard, even when the odds are stacked against you. The Asian oppression has been working overtime in our public schools. 8/

@coalitionforTJ

We see it coming fast and hard. #NoOnProp16, @coalitionforTJ, Boston Latin, Lowell, and NYC’s G&T, competitive admissions MS/HS including the specialized high schools #SHSAT. It’s dressed up as anti-racism but we should call it what it is, despicably ANTI-ASIAN. 9/9

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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/

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@MaudMaron

“Trying to silence people, shame people, and bully people so they can’t be heard is unacceptable. .. and the ppl who want to silence parents should be ashamed of themselves.” Spoke like a true leader. TY @MaudMaron @placenyc_org

“Let the student speak” I said.
This woman blocks the podium and refuses to move out of the way so the 6th gr student can have her voice heard. This is not what democracy is about..this is the cancel culture.