{"id":32329,"date":"2021-05-08T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=32329"},"modified":"2021-04-30T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:37:26","slug":"discrimination-against-asians-not-working-as-well-as-hoped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/08\/discrimination-against-asians-not-working-as-well-as-hoped\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination against Asians not working as well as hoped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! (official U.S. government web site on the subject<\/a>) This is when non-Asian American say-gooders get to lump together nearly 5 billion disparate people under the all-look-same doctrine<\/a>. Folks who grew up next door to Idi Amin<\/a> in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia can celebrate their kinship with folks who grew up on Mangareva<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s look at a story from last month… “Only 8 Black Students Are Admitted to Stuyvesant High School”<\/a> (NYT):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, tiny numbers of Black and Latino students received offers to attend New York City\u2019s elite public high schools.<\/p>

Only 9 percent of offers made by elite schools like Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science went to Black and Latino students this year, down from 11 percent last year. Only eight Black students received offers to Stuyvesant out of 749 spots, and only one Black student was accepted into Staten Island Technical High School, out of 281 freshman seats.<\/p>

Over half of the 4,262 offers this year went to Asian students.<\/strong> … The percentage of Black and Latino enrollment at Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Technical High School has hit its lowest point in the city\u2019s recorded history in the last 10 years, a trend that has accelerated during the last several years in particular.<\/p>

The city\u2019s new chancellor, Meisha Porter, called on the state to eliminate the exam in a statement Thursday. \u201cI know from my 21 years as an educator that far more students could thrive in our specialized high schools, if only given the chance,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead, the continued use of the Specialized High School Admissions Test will produce the same unacceptable results<\/strong> over and over again.\u201d<\/p>

[Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir] and his partner in the initiative, former Citigroup chairman Richard D. Parsons, promised to shower test preparation companies with money to better prepare Black and Latino students for the exam.<\/p>

Despite over $750,000 spent on test prep over the last two years, most of which was funneled to existing nonprofit programs across the city, their plan has not made a dent in the numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Discrimination against Asians is legal (see Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard<\/a><\/em>) and Asian success is, as the top NYC school bureaucrat says, “unacceptable” to non-Asians, yet the comparatively unintelligent non-Asians can’t seem to get their discrimination dials set correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that attending college doesn’t help the average person learn (see my review of Academically Adrift<\/em><\/a>), I wonder if discrimination against Asians will drive them to learn so much prior to age 18 that employers will hire them straight from high school. Isn’t that how professional sports sometimes work? The best players are hired before college graduation, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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