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Re:South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying ... by marcinzm on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:23PM (#22394500)
>middle class+ Asians

No, they're generally poor Asians who studied hard. Asians have the highest poverty rate in NYC.

edit: Private school is where those who can afford it send their kids.

edit2: I do find it interesting how discrimination and, I'd call it, racism against Asians is tolerated so much just because they're actually getting their kids out of poverty. Punish those who achieve the wanted goal, eh?

Re:South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying ... by tasogare on Saturday February 22, 2020 @09:02PM (#22394606)
They also (East-Asia at least) have the highest average IQ. Some admission process of big US universities precisely have floating requirements to discriminate against them.
Re:South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying ... by charlesu on Saturday February 22, 2020 @08:41PM (#22394539)
Can you cite a study that shows that Asians have the highest poverty rate in NYC. I'd be interested to see that.

As for discrimination against Asians, what are you referring to exactly?

Re:South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying ... by TuringNYC on Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:12AM (#22395903)
>> As for discrimination against Asians, what are you referring to exactly?

This is widespread in NYC. Notice how convenient it is to "democratize" the Science High School exam procedure (where Asians took the most seats) while conveniently avoiding the democratizing of other things (where Asians did not do well.)

For Example - Bard High School and other Private-ish public schools continue to go by the old system. Asians are under represented, and the city conveniently chose not to democratize this.

For a more extreme example, what about about sports teams at NYC high schools. Asians are massively under-represented in basketball and other teams, why aren't these democratized for equal representation?

Why stop at students. Have you noticed how few NYC school principals are Asians? Why aren't these jobs democratized for equal representation? Same for a host of cushy BoE jobs/titles/positions which offer lifetime benefits -- why arent these opened up to Asians?

Basically, when Asians do well, the system is changed to demand equal representation. In places Asians dont do well, the system is kept as is.

Re:South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying ... by charlesu on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:58AM (#22396839)
NYC wants to change to admissions process from being based on a single standardized test to being based on middle school class rank plus a standardized test. Under the current system, some middle schools send a lot of students, some send a few, and many send zero. Including class rank into the admissions criteria would change that. The change would probably increase the representation of black and Latino students at schools like Stuyvesant while maintaining an objective measure of merit: class rank.

This change might help desegregate NYCs public schools by giving white and Asian parents a reason to send their kid to a majority black or Latino school. It could make middle schools more diverse as well.

How would we use this same form of selection to increase Asian representation on high school basketball teams? It's already a de facto class rank system: each high school's basketball team is made of its best players. What's your proposal?

Re:South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying ... by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:51AM (#22395662)
The city government's official site has lots of breakdowns on it[1]. Picking "Total NYC Population", "Race/Ethnicity", "Poverty" shows that Asian poverty has been the highest since 2007.

The idea that an admissions policy is unacceptable if it admits too many Asians is, I assume, the discrimination being referred to.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/opportunity/poverty-in-nyc/data-to...