New Yawkas discuss! No Ethnic Group Owns Stuyvesant. All New Yorkers Do. Mayor

[elleng]

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan would destroy the best high school in New York City.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/de-blasio-stuyvesant-school.html?

De Blasio’s Plan for NYC Schools Isn’t Anti-Asian. It’s Anti-Racist.
It gives a diverse group of working-class kids a fairer shot, which shouldn’t be controversial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/stuyvesant-new-york-schools-de-blasio.html?

[Lucky Luciano]

1. Written by a highly privileged hedge fund manager.

It is not surprising that he thinks that talent can be purely assessed from a single test. After all, that worked for him. All the middle schools that failed to produce good test results don’t all have dumb kids - just underprivileged with lower quality schools. Those kids should not be punished for that and there should be assessments accounting for other qualities that may imply hidden potential.

Disclaimer: I am also in the hedge fund industry, so I don’t mind being critical of Boaz’s point of view. Also, I strongly benefitted from a test style assessment because I tend to ace those things. It is not bad to look at other methods though. Gaming the system for a test is not talent. It is gaming the system. A true assessment of talent is not so easy that a silly test will detect it.