Elite Public High Schools in New York City Drawing Few Minorities

Elite public school

I think it's hysterical how how the Asians commenting on this blog do not recognize that they themselves are in fact considered a minority. Sorry but if you're not white than you are considered a minority. Are you not taught that in the specialized school you got accepted to? And let's not blame everything on parents. They may play their part but our public schools are lacking in so many ways that it does not give anyone Asian or any other minority a chance to suceed when all that is cared about is a standardized test.

Tell me do these specialized schools actually teach you how to write a coherent research paper or is it all just theory and memorization?

Test Prep is Important

Lol.... your lack of test prep is probably why you're at York (which no one has ever heard of) instead of Stuyvesant or Bronx Science.

Lol...

I'm in Queens high school for the sciences at York College, which is one of the specialized high schools in NYC right now, and I didn't study for the SHSATs.

I think that the people that actually TRY to prep for this test actually...FAIL....no offense to them, i guess.

By the way, I'm asian. i think that there's more asians because that's how most of us were raised up: to get good grades, go to an ivy league college, etcetc. If not....we get a beating.

grades and color

Let the grades speak not color. Whoever does the best deserves to get in. It should not be the fault of a smart white or Asian child that minority numbers are low. If they score higher they deserve the spot. If kids were getting in with low scores compared to higher scores for a minority than it would be a crime

Admissions

How can i start this school to finish my diploma to get into the best jobs in New York

P.S.

Its funny why I wrote that because I didn't study for the shsat ;]

Maybe they should actually try harder

I go to stuyvesant high right now and I think that all of these politicians should not involve politics or questions about race in schools especially the specialized high schools. Stuy is two thirds asians because they are very dilligent and good workers. They spend time and work hard to get results and they often do. The SHSAT is a nonbiased test accepting the top scorers and if the asians and Jewish students can study and work fairly to getting in on their own why can't minorities? All the poloiticians affirmitive action policies are so stupid and I'm surprised that it's legal. I like what Mr.Teitel said sometime before that the gifted and talented students are underrepresented. Please don't stick people who don't try hard into this school by the color of their skin because that won't be fait to the students who got here fairly or the students that got through by politicians. Don't do them or us a disservice by putting unworthy people in the school and keep the shsat which shows real meritocracy. I encourage minorities to try harder and get in on their own skills. You may call me a racist fine do what you want but I think (along with the students in my school that I have a valid pont).

bronx high school of science graduate

Bronx High School of Science was a miserable place to go to school. As a white kid, I had so few people to hang with. The 70% of the school that was Asian stuck together. Everyone else was an outsider. Everyone worked like horses, probably driven by the chinese/asian work ethic. But the school is a decidely unintellectual place. You had to achieve high grades by working, working and working and mimicking ideas given by teachers and memorizing facts. Real thought and innovation was not valued. The school administration promotes conformity as does the Asian student body.

So others who are not in this school should consider themselves lucky.

Elite Public Schools

I think the graduate of Stuyvesant have no idea how Latino and black families operate we push or kids harder because they are black and Latino. You can’t just blame the families, the schools they attend before reaching high school doesn’t always offer opportunities to prepare the child so they have to go to a less then sub-standard high school in hopes to get into to a better college its not the lack of effort or ability or family support if anything it makes us stronger and have a better ability to adapt to a situation and make it a better out come.

If you feel that the schools are so lacking a challenge for a bright student then send them to a private school which shouldn’t be a problem since there so bright a scholarship should be easy for them to obtain.

Ignorance is a disease

Most minority families don't realize the disparity that exsists in the US school system.I've seen high school graduates that are completely ignorant, on the other hand, there are those from qualitiy schools that are ready to run a fortune 500 company.

Getting parents who themselves are not educated, to understand what is necessary to be succesful in school is a difficult task.My wife and I try to recruit other minorities to our sons scholl all the time.I've heard all kind of excuses.

When one with small chidren move from one place to another,school should determine one's next location.Unfortunately, too many minorities don't do that.