Richard Wright
Living Legend
I think then top kids from each middle school idea is a good one.
Im from a city that is majority black. I went to an elite public high school, top 10 in the country, which was the only non majority black high school in my city and which required an examination to get in.
Judging by my SAT score and performance in college I know I belonged there. Unlike Stuyvesant, race was considered for admission into my school. And for the years I went there (5th-12th grade) it was always obvious that teachers(especially in the middle school years) , administrators, and other students thought I was only there because I was black. And that sucked. I eventually just stopped going to school for a few reasons, and this component of the culture was one of them.
I remember before high school started there was a partnership with a local university for gifted math students. Unfortunately for me, the entire selection process depended on the teacher choosing you. So despite my eventual near perfect math score on the SAT I was not asked to participate. All asians and maybe one white kid were chosen. I eventually had to settle for a 5 on the AP calculus exam.
As long as there are different standards academically the people who will suffer most in the black community come from the set those of us who do not need the reduced standards, who will be perceived as having only met a lowered bar when we actualy raised the bar overall.
Just like in college admissions the people who will benefit are the black kids with money who could have worked a little harder but knew they could slack off because of the lowered bar.
I think education in America has already ruined the country and that we need innovative solutions that will result in a more educated population. Instead we have a rat race to 'get mine' that plagues many other aspects of our culture. I get sad just thinking about it.
Im from a city that is majority black. I went to an elite public high school, top 10 in the country, which was the only non majority black high school in my city and which required an examination to get in.
Judging by my SAT score and performance in college I know I belonged there. Unlike Stuyvesant, race was considered for admission into my school. And for the years I went there (5th-12th grade) it was always obvious that teachers(especially in the middle school years) , administrators, and other students thought I was only there because I was black. And that sucked. I eventually just stopped going to school for a few reasons, and this component of the culture was one of them.
I remember before high school started there was a partnership with a local university for gifted math students. Unfortunately for me, the entire selection process depended on the teacher choosing you. So despite my eventual near perfect math score on the SAT I was not asked to participate. All asians and maybe one white kid were chosen. I eventually had to settle for a 5 on the AP calculus exam.
As long as there are different standards academically the people who will suffer most in the black community come from the set those of us who do not need the reduced standards, who will be perceived as having only met a lowered bar when we actualy raised the bar overall.
Just like in college admissions the people who will benefit are the black kids with money who could have worked a little harder but knew they could slack off because of the lowered bar.
I think education in America has already ruined the country and that we need innovative solutions that will result in a more educated population. Instead we have a rat race to 'get mine' that plagues many other aspects of our culture. I get sad just thinking about it.
