Expelling Asian Americans from top schools proves NYC education is off the rails

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2021/05/03/expelling-asian-americans-from-top-schools-
proves-nyc-education-is-off-the-rails/

Anti-Asian violence in New York right now is more than random street-
corner sucker punches and terrifying subway shoves. It’s also the
deliberate disassembly of meritocratic public education under the guise of
ethnic equity — a dagger to the heart of the fastest-growing and arguably
most dynamic immigrant group in the city.

Not to diminish the thuggery, the most serious threat to Asian American
New Yorkers is the Department of Education’s ill-disguised effort to
eliminate merit test-based admission to the city’s eight highly selective
high schools. The process is dominated by Asian kids to the virtual
exclusion of black and Hispanic students.

The new numbers came out last week, and they are beyond harsh: Asians won
54 percent of this year’s freshman class seats; whites, 28 percent;
Hispanics, 5 percent, and African Americans, 4 percent.

Whereupon Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter demanded an end to test-
based admissions — because “It’s far past time for our students to be
fairly represented.”

Weird. By her own words, Porter doesn’t consider Asian kids — apparently
all 145,000 of them — to be among “our students.” And to her, “fair
representation” means quotas. How else to interpret what she said?

She’s no trailblazer here, of course. New York, city and state, has been
chipping away at school performance standards for a generation. Lately, in
the Bill de Blasio/Andrew Cuomo/Carl Heastie era, they have been in free
fall.

But only rarely is the official agenda so clearly — if perhaps
inadvertently — stated: Explicitly expelling Asian kids from the “our
students” mix is both breathtaking and a fair measure of how far off the
rails public education policy is in New York these days.

If the pandemic has produced anything positive, it is now beyond argument
that teachers as an organized force have no interest in actually teaching;
hell, they’re no longer even going through the motions.

Neither is Porter, obviously, nor de Blasio, Cuomo, the state and city
education departments, the City Council, the Legislature and the state
Board of Regents — the last once being America’s most demanding monitor of
quality public schools.

The rationale was simple: A solid basic education was intrinsically a good
thing, but transforming the nation’s immigrant legions into an educated
workforce would promote prosperity, too.

That worked for decades — but over time, the assumption frayed. Now the
game is Porter’s quota culture — and those running it admit to no
distinction between pretending to educate children and actually doing so.

And they hope nobody notices; so far, nobody has.

Yet those high school admissions numbers are hard to miss — and it’s a
safe bet that the city’s Asian Americans are staring at them intently.

Certainly the city itself is changing. Where things will stand when the
pandemic shakes out is anybody’s guess. Plus those 2020 Census Bureau
numbers released last month bear close study.

But no one will dispute that immigration once again is radically
transforming the five boroughs. To the point, Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and
Flushing/Elmhurst in Queens have been transformed by Chinese newcomers —
most poor but tirelessly striving and virtually all dedicated to
advancement through high-quality, merit-driven education.

Hard work and familial support make for exemplary test scores — so it is
no accident that immigrant children make up a significant percentage of
those Porter and her quota cabal would turn away from the city’s
specialized high schools.

And while neighborhoods like Park Slope and the Upper West Side get most
of the attention when the elimination of programs for talented kids is
being discussed, don’t think for a minute that extra effort for high-
performing outer-borough Asian children isn’t on the target list too.

Still, Park Slope and Upper West Side residents often have options not
available to impoverished, often illegal immigrants from, say, mainland
China’s Fujian Province. The question is how hard they’ll push back
against Porter’s blatant discrimination.

It wouldn’t be the first time that a demand for quality public schools
created social and political friction in the city — that is to say,
generated the sometimes-disruptive energy necessary for positive change.

Porter would do better to concentrate on the reasons underlying black
under-performance — they are many, varied and often heartbreaking — rather
than trying to mask those problems with quotas.

They won’t help black kids learn, after all, and isn’t that supposed to be
the point?

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Post by Leroy N. Soetoro
https://nypost.com/2021/05/03/expelling-asian-americans-from-top-schools-
proves-nyc-education-is-off-the-rails/
Anti-Asian violence in New York right now is more than random street-
corner sucker punches and terrifying subway shoves. It's also the
deliberate disassembly of meritocratic public education under the guise of
ethnic equity - a dagger to the heart of the fastest-growing and arguably
most dynamic immigrant group in the city.
Not to diminish the thuggery, the most serious threat to Asian American
New Yorkers is the Department of Education's ill-disguised effort to
eliminate merit test-based admission to the city's eight highly selective
high schools. The process is dominated by Asian kids to the virtual
exclusion of black and Hispanic students.
The new numbers came out last week, and they are beyond harsh: Asians won
54 percent of this year's freshman class seats; whites, 28 percent;
Hispanics, 5 percent, and African Americans, 4 percent.
Whereupon Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter demanded an end to test-
based admissions - because "It's far past time for our students to be
fairly represented."
Weird. By her own words, Porter doesn't consider Asian kids - apparently
all 145,000 of them - to be among "our students." And to her, "fair
representation" means quotas. How else to interpret what she said?
She's no trailblazer here, of course. New York, city and state, has been
chipping away at school performance standards for a generation. Lately, in
the Bill de Blasio/Andrew Cuomo/Carl Heastie era, they have been in free
fall.
But only rarely is the official agenda so clearly - if perhaps
inadvertently - stated: Explicitly expelling Asian kids from the "our
students" mix is both breathtaking and a fair measure of how far off the
rails public education policy is in New York these days.
If the pandemic has produced anything positive, it is now beyond argument
that teachers as an organized force have no interest in actually teaching;
hell, they're no longer even going through the motions.
Neither is Porter, obviously, nor de Blasio, Cuomo, the state and city
education departments, the City Council, the Legislature and the state
Board of Regents - the last once being America's most demanding monitor of
quality public schools.
The rationale was simple: A solid basic education was intrinsically a good
thing, but transforming the nation's immigrant legions into an educated
workforce would promote prosperity, too.
That worked for decades - but over time, the assumption frayed. Now the
game is Porter's quota culture - and those running it admit to no
distinction between pretending to educate children and actually doing so.
And they hope nobody notices; so far, nobody has.
Yet those high school admissions numbers are hard to miss - and it's a
safe bet that the city's Asian Americans are staring at them intently.
Certainly the city itself is changing. Where things will stand when the
pandemic shakes out is anybody's guess. Plus those 2020 Census Bureau
numbers released last month bear close study.
But no one will dispute that immigration once again is radically
transforming the five boroughs. To the point, Brooklyn's Sunset Park and
Flushing/Elmhurst in Queens have been transformed by Chinese newcomers -
most poor but tirelessly striving and virtually all dedicated to
advancement through high-quality, merit-driven education.
Hard work and familial support make for exemplary test scores - so it is
no accident that immigrant children make up a significant percentage of
those Porter and her quota cabal would turn away from the city's
specialized high schools.
And while neighborhoods like Park Slope and the Upper West Side get most
of the attention when the elimination of programs for talented kids is
being discussed, don't think for a minute that extra effort for high-
performing outer-borough Asian children isn't on the target list too.
Still, Park Slope and Upper West Side residents often have options not
available to impoverished, often illegal immigrants from, say, mainland
China's Fujian Province. The question is how hard they'll push back
against Porter's blatant discrimination.
It wouldn't be the first time that a demand for quality public schools
created social and political friction in the city - that is to say,
generated the sometimes-disruptive energy necessary for positive change.
Porter would do better to concentrate on the reasons underlying black
under-performance - they are many, varied and often heartbreaking - rather
than trying to mask those problems with quotas.
They won't help black kids learn, after all, and isn't that supposed to be
the point?

More to the point, when these kids fail to perform, they will start dumbing
down the course to raise the pass rate of the students, and then act
surprised when they cease to attract the high performance students... at
which point they will blame it on racism.... but not by them, but by others
who promote academic achievement ahead of race.

[BeamMeUpScotty]

Post by Leroy N. Soetoro
https://nypost.com/2021/05/03/expelling-asian-americans-from-top-schools-
proves-nyc-education-is-off-the-rails/
Anti-Asian violence in New York right now is more than random street-
corner sucker punches and terrifying subway shoves. It’s also the
deliberate disassembly of meritocratic public education under the guise of
ethnic equity — a dagger to the heart of the fastest-growing and arguably
most dynamic immigrant group in the city.
Not to diminish the thuggery, the most serious threat to Asian American
New Yorkers is the Department of Education’s ill-disguised effort to
eliminate merit test-based admission to the city’s eight highly selective
high schools. The process is dominated by Asian kids to the virtual
exclusion of black and Hispanic students.
The new numbers came out last week, and they are beyond harsh: Asians won
54 percent of this year’s freshman class seats; whites, 28 percent;
Hispanics, 5 percent, and African Americans, 4 percent.
Whereupon Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter demanded an end to test-
based admissions — because “It’s far past time for our students to be
fairly represented.”
Weird. By her own words, Porter doesn’t consider Asian kids — apparently
all 145,000 of them — to be among “our students.” And to her, “fair
representation” means quotas. How else to interpret what she said?
She’s no trailblazer here, of course. New York, city and state, has been
chipping away at school performance standards for a generation. Lately, in
the Bill de Blasio/Andrew Cuomo/Carl Heastie era, they have been in free
fall.
But only rarely is the official agenda so clearly — if perhaps
inadvertently — stated: Explicitly expelling Asian kids from the “our
students” mix is both breathtaking and a fair measure of how far off the
rails public education policy is in New York these days.
If the pandemic has produced anything positive, it is now beyond argument
that teachers as an organized force have no interest in actually teaching;
hell, they’re no longer even going through the motions.
Neither is Porter, obviously, nor de Blasio, Cuomo, the state and city
education departments, the City Council, the Legislature and the state
Board of Regents — the last once being America’s most demanding monitor of
quality public schools.
The rationale was simple: A solid basic education was intrinsically a good
thing, but transforming the nation’s immigrant legions into an educated
workforce would promote prosperity, too.
That worked for decades — but over time, the assumption frayed. Now the
game is Porter’s quota culture — and those running it admit to no
distinction between pretending to educate children and actually doing so.
And they hope nobody notices; so far, nobody has.
Yet those high school admissions numbers are hard to miss — and it’s a
safe bet that the city’s Asian Americans are staring at them intently.
Certainly the city itself is changing. Where things will stand when the
pandemic shakes out is anybody’s guess. Plus those 2020 Census Bureau
numbers released last month bear close study.
But no one will dispute that immigration once again is radically
transforming the five boroughs. To the point, Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and
Flushing/Elmhurst in Queens have been transformed by Chinese newcomers —
most poor but tirelessly striving and virtually all dedicated to
advancement through high-quality, merit-driven education.
Hard work and familial support make for exemplary test scores — so it is
no accident that immigrant children make up a significant percentage of
those Porter and her quota cabal would turn away from the city’s
specialized high schools.
And while neighborhoods like Park Slope and the Upper West Side get most
of the attention when the elimination of programs for talented kids is
being discussed, don’t think for a minute that extra effort for high-
performing outer-borough Asian children isn’t on the target list too.
Still, Park Slope and Upper West Side residents often have options not
available to impoverished, often illegal immigrants from, say, mainland
China’s Fujian Province. The question is how hard they’ll push back
against Porter’s blatant discrimination.
It wouldn’t be the first time that a demand for quality public schools
created social and political friction in the city — that is to say,
generated the sometimes-disruptive energy necessary for positive change.
Porter would do better to concentrate on the reasons underlying black
under-performance — they are many, varied and often heartbreaking — rather
than trying to mask those problems with quotas.
They won’t help black kids learn, after all, and isn’t that supposed to be
the point?

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