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Blacks, Hispanics Dip At Top NY High Schools
by Christopher Chantrill
August 18, 2006 at 3:50 pm
ABOUT TEN YEARS ago New York City set up a special program to help boost enrollment of black and Hispanics at their three top high schools. You can only get into them by passing an academic test; no racial quotas allowed. So the program provided special tutoring for blacks and Hispanics.
Trouble is that the enrollment of blacks and Hispanics at the three top high schools has been going down in spite of the special tutoring program. What’s the problem, asks reporter Elissa Gootman in The New York Times? Robert Jackson knows. He’s “chairman of the City Council education committee.”
“The statistics clearly show that black New Yorkers are being shut out... Is it institutional racism or is it something else?”
Oh no! Not institutional racism rearing its ugly head! And in New York City too, where evil white conservative institutional racists and bigots are pretty thin on the ground! How could it happen?
Actually, if you look at the graph of enrollment at the three top New York City high schools, you can see what is happening. The real story has nothing to do with black and Hispanic students.
The real story is that enrollment of Asian students is soaring and the enrollment of white students is plummeting.
Of course, that is a story of no interest to the race baiters of New York City and the earnest liberal journalists at The New York Times. But Gootman puts her finger on the real problem for the underrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics.
Now parents, educators and academics explain the racial makeup of the schools by pointing to a variety of factors, including... the hiring of private tutors by the middle class and continued use of the admissions test alone.
Well. We’d better put a stop to that, for sure. Imagine, overprivileged middle-class parents are going out without permission and spending their own money on private tutors. There’s institutional racism for you. Or is it cultural racism?
Here’s an idea to deal with this problem. New York City should have a program to regulate the price charged by private tutors. Otherwise the rich and the middle class will skim off all the good tutors and the underserved communities will be marginalized and continue to be shut out of the good schools.
Sphere: Related Content |Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
What Liberals Think About Conservatives
[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists,” she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Racial Discrimination
[T]he way “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,”
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300–301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Physics, Religion, and Psychology
Paul Dirac: “When I was talking with Lemaître about [the expanding universe] and feeling stimulated
by the grandeur of the picture that he has given us, I told him that
I thought cosmology was the branch of science that lies closest to religion.
However [Georges] Lemaître [Catholic priest, physicist, and
inventor of the Big Bang Theory] did not agree with me. After thinking it over he
suggested psychology as lying closest to religion.”
John Farrell, “The Creation Myth”
Pentecostalism
Within Pentecostalism the injurious hierarchies of the wider world are abrogated and replaced by a single hierarchy of faith, grace, and the empowerments of the spirit... where groups gather on rafts to take them through the turbulence of the great journey from extensive rural networks to the mega-city and the nuclear family...
David Martin, On Secularization
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
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