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Stuyvesant class of 2017
Topic Started: Mar 18 2013, 09:01 AM (287 Views)
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STUYVESANT CLASS OF ’17, BY THE NUMBERS

On Twitter via John Podhoretz, I see that Kay Hymovitz points to the demographic breakdown of the entering freshman class at Stuyvesant High School. Stuyvesant is one of New York’s specialized public high schools where entrance is determined solely by Specialized High School Admission Test scores:

—Stuyvesant offered admission to 9 black students; 24 Latino students; 177 white students; and 620 students who identify as Asian.

Hymowitz just says “wow,” which seems like a good start, but I hope she will elaborate.

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Whom does Affirmative Action benefit?

Apparently not African-Americans, for whom it was designed; in fact, their scores seem to be getting worse, not better;

whereas Asian-Americans, who are sometimes discriminated against (and legally, btw); and whose parents sometimes have
them change their names to be Anglo-sounding, so that they won't be discriminated against in college applications (so that
the admissions officers won't know that they are Asian)

excel.

(Anybody want to put in a word for the value of a home-centered/family-centered culture, which
expects its children to work hard and succeed? And which is not given any excuses by the society
around them--nor benefits--for failing?)



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