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…
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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Blue Cross/Blue Shield sees “not enough depressed black people” as a problem that has to be fixed. bcbs.com/the-health-of-…
Maybe white people are over diagnosed?
Japan basically had no cultural recognition of depression as an illness...until Eli Lilly hired cultural anthropologists to design culturally targeted marketing interventions to persuade them to recognize it as such....
So interesting that a major scholar must describe "one of the most robust findings" in criminology -- that "more police officers in the street leads to less violent crime" -- as one of its "most uncomfortable findings."
I mean, it *is* uncomfortable to have fifty DSA members in your mentions yelling at you that police don't prevent crime but in most other settings the idea that this "uncomfortable finding" could possibly not be true hasn't even occurred to most people.
You see the way he's trying to "pace and lead" an audience of presumed "defund" enthusiasts back to reality here...not sure if the WaPo really consists of such enthusiasts...make it does?
"I'm so exhausted" is a form of credentialing, qualifying oneself as suffering from one of the mental ailments (OCD, self-diagnosed autism spectrum disorder, in this case depression, etc.) that allows implicit self-identification as "disabled"
The percentage of students considered "disabled" at America's most expensive liberal arts college increased from 5 percent in 2014 to 22 percent in 2019
Some people this is because rich people are gaming the system to get extra time on tests -- and no doubt there is happening. But it may be that what began as a cynical expedient eventually came to reshape the subjective experiences of a generation. The latter is worse!
List of charges against Andrew Yang in open letter by a group of progressive Asian activists includes "you’ve called for increased funding for the NYPD hate crimes task force instead of community-based alternatives."
"Asians Against Yang" is an inherently funny name for a URL, credit where due
Of course a robust majority of Asian New Yorkers support Yang because, say it again kids in unison, kids, "progressive activists do not represent the people they claim to represent...: