IBD reports:
In New York City, where Asian-Americans make up 13% of overall students, they win more than 50% of the coveted places each year at the city's eight selective public high schools, such as Bronx Science and Stuyvesant.
What's at work here? It's not a difference in IQ. It's parenting. That's confirmed by sociologists from City University of New York and the University of Michigan. Their study showed that parental oversight enabled Asian-American students to far outperform the others.
There's more:
Meanwhile in New York City, Mayor Bill De Blasio and the NAACP want to eliminate the competitive exam for the city's eight selective high schools and rig admissions with a "holistic" approach. That means robbing poor, largely immigrant and first-generation kids — nearly half the students get subsidized school lunches — of the chance to study hard and compete for a world-class education.
As Dennis Saffran explains in "The Plot Against Merit," some Asian-American eighth-graders practice for two years for the test while their parents work in laundromats and restaurants to pay for exam prep classes.
What's stopping white, Hispanic and black parents from doing the same?
The war against Asian-American students.
