{"id":250916,"date":"2021-05-16T04:08:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/attacking-test-in-schools-is-anti-asian\/"},"modified":"2021-05-16T04:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:08:16","slug":"attacking-test-in-schools-is-anti-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/attacking-test-in-schools-is-anti-asian\/","title":{"rendered":"#Attacking test-in schools is anti-Asian"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Attacking test-in schools is anti-Asian<\/strong>”
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On Wednesday, a handful of students \u2014 including a couple of Brooklyn Tech kids \u2014 demonstrated against the specialized high school entrance exam in front of Stuyvesant HS in Lower Manhattan. Teens Take Charge, the group sponsoring the event, chose Stuyvesant as the venue because it is 70 percent Asian and this year just eight black students did well enough on the test to win entry.<\/p>\n

What made this affair sad, besides the low turnout, was that The New York Times and NY1<\/a> took the rally seriously \u2014 thinking this somehow represents a majority opinion. Democratic politicians also pretend that the existence of elite schools, and the tests required to enter them, is a problem. During Thursday\u2019s mayoral debate, only Eric Adams and Kathryn Garcia (a Stuyvesant grad) stood up for the entrance exam. <\/p>\n

The problem is not the test. It\u2019s a sign of the larger problem of too many underperforming elementary and middle schools in our city \u2014 and the absence of Gifted & Talented classes \u2014 in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The SHSAT is a color-blind admissions test where neither political influence nor money can buy entrance. For over 80 years, these schools have offered advancement to all through a high-quality, merit-driven education.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, many of the same voices decrying the surge in anti-Asian assaults as the product of \u201csystemic racism\u201d also denounce a race-blind exam that happ<\/a>ens to lead to elite high schools being predominantly Asian high schools, even suggesting that this, too, is somehow the product of (extremely well-hidden?) racism.<\/p>\n

Dropping admission standards for the specialized high schools means sending in students who aren\u2019t prepared for the rigorous workload, which helps no one and robs others of the challenging education they\u2019ve earned. It\u2019s the pursuit of \u201cequity\u201d at the expense of justice and excellence.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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