De Blasio Has a Plan to Diversify Elite Schools in NYC. Parents Are Suing.
14th December 2018
Asian-American parents and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against New York City officials Thursday over a plan that would increase admissions for black and Hispanic students to elite schools in the city.
This diversity & inclusion stuff is all very well and good when cruising the underclass for votes, but let’s not get carried away.
Black and Hispanic students make up 68 percent of the city’s population with 9 percent receiving offers to attend specialized high schools.
That’s because black and Hispanic students can’t be bothered to go to class or study, which is why they don’t qualify.
Asian-American students, however, make up 62 percent of the population at the city’s elite high schools,
Asian-American students have parents that make sure they study and get good grades. Tiger Mothers and all that.
The plan promoted by Mayor Bill de Blasio would set aside 20 percent of seats at each of the elite high schools for students coming from low socioeconomic backgrounds, according to WaPo.
The implication being that they will be admitted despite having not qualified through the entrance exam, i.e. affirmative-action admissions.
“Furthermore, this costly expansion (estimated at $550,000) is just another futile effort by de Blasio to mask his failures to improve K-8 education in black and Hispanic communities: under his watch, math and English proficiency rates among black and Latino students from grades 3 through 8 are less than 50% of performance levels among Asian and Caucasian American students,” the AACE press statement said.
How crass of them to bring that up.
“Our schools are academically stronger when they reflect the diversity of our City,” New York City’s Department of Education (NYCDOE) spokesman Will Mantell told TheDCNF.
Evidence to support this common Lefty fairy tale is never produced, of course. In reality, diversity will very obviously make the schools academically weaker by putting young proto-thugs in the same classrooms as actual students.