The news that only 7 out of 895 freshmen slots at NYC's most prestigious public high school went to black students raises more questions about the fairness of admissions standards for the city's selective high-quality schools. - NBCBLK
March 21, 2019, 2:49 PM GMTThe news that only seven out of 895 freshmen slots at New York City's most prestigious public high school went to black students has sparked public outrage and raised more questions about the fairness of admissions standards for the city's selective high-quality schools.
According to education policy experts and those who have navigated the city’s selective high school application process, the low numbers of black and Latino students accepted at Stuyvesant High School — which like a few other city high schools relies solely on a test score to get in — reveal a series of uncomfortable truths about the state of American equity.
“I get that there are kids who perform at a higher level and those kids need to be challenged,” said Andrew Boryga, a writer who grew up in the Bronx, a few blocks from the selective New York City high school known as Bronx Science. “But something absolutely needs to change. What we have now, this is like ‘The Hunger Games’ for a good public education.”
Boryga failed to gain entry at Bronx Science. Growing up in his mostly Puerto Rican neighborhood, he never met a single person who attended the school. And
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