Right. Every year 1200 high achieving black and Hispanic NYC students receive fully funded scholarships to elite prep schools. nypost.com/2018/06/09/how… 
https://twitter.com/BenjaminBadejo/status/1387962812274823173
BK Tech was more than half black and Hispanic as recently as 1991. As the scholarship programs ramped up, the highest achieving black and Hispanic students no longer target the SHSAT as they have a more desirable option.
The resulting “under-representation” is then presented as a scandal. But it’s just other groups with better options leaving certain schools to poor Asian grinds.
The crisis is totally manufactured
Another issue is the neighborhood schools in the largest Asian immigrant neighborhoods are badly under resourced and don’t have enough seats for the kids in the neighborhood. Focusing on the SHSATs gets those kids a spot in a decent school.
Everybody would of course to prefer to have functional schools near them — unfortunately that doesn’t exist in much of NYC
Unclear whether the “reporters” who constantly blast out tweets about this manufactured crisis remain ignorant of these basic facts or know them and are deliberately eliding them to sustain a fake narrative. Neither would surprise me.
The majority of white kids in NYC go to private schools. A major chunk of black kids go to charters. White kids focus on getting into screened schools that have holistic evaluations for admissions. Immigrant Asians focus on the test schools. That’s fine.
Focusing on the one option that ends up being heavily Asian and calling that outcome racist or — even, absurdly “white supremacist” — is a form of systemic dishonesty
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