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about our enter
last thursday
a racial bias complaint was filed
against the eight local high schools
and
you can actually it's interesting
uh...
chris hayes in his book
the and america chrissy
twilight of the elites
he talks about his experience as going i think it was to uh... stuyvesant
and started seeing high school
is a public school in new york city
but you have to test into it
and i don't know what the numbers are
one out of
thousands
said ten thousand get and what is it i don't know the numbers either but its
verdict is the heart and i remember it's incredibly hard to get wasn't that long
ago when i had friends who try to get into that school it's it's
it's extremely hard you have to be
very vary
intel
and
back when he went to you well you wrote about this i believe very eager to talk
about is written about it
begin fine excerpt online actually read talks about this
when he went
the school was much more diverse than it is today
you take the standardized test and
if you did well enough on it you get it
was impossible for anybody to get in
unless they did well on this test
he says today however the school as a lot less diverse
and the reason is
because of test prep
wealthy people
can afford it
private tutors to test you
to to you for this test
um...
upper middle class people can get you into a non private tutoring session
we go to a class to learn how to take the test
this is rapid in new york
very uh... poor kids they can afford to do this
uh... kids whose parents are just not tuned in they may not be aware of it
uh... and sell
it is creating heyyy
serta these tests are biased against these kids
these are very specific tutors to for for the stats remember correctly korea
they have previous versions of this testimonial already going with the you
recall your head start in people who don't had
didn't happen only absolutely
miler to did the gifted talented test
and we had to turn
comment when she was young
uh...
to basically an end
you know there's only so much of the keys but you can teach them to feel
comfortable taking a test
a standardized test
which are
rather easy to get confused on
and
unconvinced
you know she did well on it
hud convinced if she hadn't had a tutor she would not have
she would've been able to get into the the gifted counter programming in korea
'cause he did she just
made it by
the skin a pretty
uh...
but i'm convinced that had she not have that to drink she would not have been
eligible for that program
we're already into of very good public schools so we were just
we were happy with that
this makes a huge difference is no doubt about it
and so how does that bloomberg racked
the n_ double a_c_p_ legal defense fund filed the complaint against the city
saying the admissions test is for a specialized high schools in the air
is biased against black and latino students
citing u_s_ education statistics showing that among the nine hundred sixty seven
students offer spot
at these uh... active status in high school
on the ninety one black and thirty two were latino
according to the new york times seven percent of public school students in the
city are black or latino
and double a_c_p_ attorney damon hewitt told the newspaper i refuse to believe
there are only nineteen billion america african-americans in the city it's
simply cannot be the case
it's a shameful practice in a must be changed
bloomberg defended the admissions process
saying was not subjective designed to the best and brightest
i don't care what some people say bloomberg told w n_b_c_t_v_
isn't always fair
i don't know how you would take away the right
to get tutoring or how the public could pay for tutoring
life's not fair
rich people are gonna get the better
public education
people could afford to pay for tutoring are getting at the better public
education
is not
susan enhancing someone's education
this is getting them admitted to a school which is going to fundamentally
change the rest of their life
on date
not because necessarily the school is that much better
but because they are now have that imprimatur or
which will get them into any college they want to get into
and a story
life's not fair
well how about this
how about getting rid of the school
life's not fair about cameras cool
business what are you know when it was a loop here's the argument
counter-argument to that why would you punish these very well i'll be very
smart kids
life's not fair
but this is based upon their own merit
i mean
life's not fair for these kids because they can afford the tutor
but if it's not fair for other people
well it's a different story
business coming from the same guy who likes his last year said something like
it's not fair that i keep my while she is making getting to work more difficult
for these people working on wall street