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Thursday, June 14. 2018

Racial breakdown

From A GREAT HIGH SCHOOL AND THE MAYOR WHO WOULD DIMINISH IT, an ethnic/racial breakdown of one of NYC's three elite high schools:


Asian — 613
White — 151
Hispanic — 27
Black — 10


Why do they even measure these statistics? Can't we just view people as people? I am confident that nobody in the board of ed is discriminating against whites, hispanics, and blacks.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 14:55 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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They need to know how to "improve" the diversity in order to dumb down everybody.
#1 harleycowboy on 2018-06-14 17:19 (Reply)
They nearly had an Asian uprising in the Bay Area when they started talking about playing these games at Cal and other UC schools. Because of systematic discrimination against Asians as "overqualified" at most private universities, schools like Cal and UCLA have become huge go-to schools for Asian students because UC schools are prohibited by Proposition 209 from discriminating on the basis of race.
#2 Jim (Link) on 2018-06-14 21:21 (Reply)
True equality requires everyone to be at the same level.

You're a professional dancer?
- You must wear these heavy weights & 12-pound shoes.
You are much brighter than average?
- You must wear this random ear-buzzer, it will break your ability to concentrate.

The mayor has apparently never heard any of these truisms:

--- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
--- You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
--- You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
--- You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
--- You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

It's an increasingly Bizzaro world we're living in.
#3 Riick on 2018-06-14 22:17 (Reply)
Interesting. Based on those stats I didn't realise that NYC is in fact Hong Kong.
#4 Adam (Link) on 2018-06-14 23:37 (Reply)
Asians are not disproportionately over-represented in the population of NYC at large so much as in the higher IQ ranges. Only 5 points, 105 vs 100 average, but on a Gaussian distribution that is going to skew the upper regions more. I am going to bet that a lot of the "white" subdivides further as Jewish - though this is less true than years ago for a couple of reasons.

@ Riick - those weights and buzzers are part of a sci-fi story, I think by Kurt Vonnegut, from years ago.
#4.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-06-15 13:37 (Reply)

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