De Blasio wants to scrap admissions testing for elite high schools

Shock of shocks, the issue here is race… there aren’t enough black and latino students in these schools, so De Blasio wants a set-aside to bump up their numbers. But here’s the interesting detail:

Under the current system, Asian kids predominate at the city’s top high schools. They make up 74 percent of the population at Stuyvesant, 66 percent at Bronx Science and 61 percent at Brooklyn Tech. At Queens HS for Science at York College, 82 percent are Asian.

Not enough blacks or latinos based on current demographics. But there seems to be another major ethnic group that is statistically under-represented that *isn’t* going to be favored. Odd, that. De Blasios editorial where he explains his idea is HERE. It reads like the usual political pap. But do a CTRL-F search on the page, and see if there are any major ethnic groups who make up a large fraction of New Yorks population, and who are statistically under-represented in these elite high schools, that are mysteriously left unmentioned.

Spoiler alert: whites are under-represented, and are not considered worthy of set-aside programs. While I’m unsurprised that Asians are over-represented, I am a bit surprised at the sheer magnitude of it. But you know what my answer would be here to bump up the numbers of white kids in these schools? I would not tell them that they need to have the government come in and protect them. I would tell them:

“Do better.”

But here’s the thing: if I or any other white guy were to suggest that what America needs is a movement among white folks for them to buckle down, stop screwing around, ditch the trivialities of modern pop culture, throw off the shackles of cultural Marxism and get back to work, to keep it in your pants more than they have been, to get married and have kids, to raise them well with both parents, to raise them with reason and logic and the goal of turning them into proper productive citizens, to raise them to have goals and ambitions and to bust their asses so that they can compete and win in order to keep their place and their culture… why, that’d be downright racist of me or whoever was gauche enough to suggest such a crazy thing.