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Joanne Jacobs: Keeping Chinatown kids down
“Hard-working, high-achieving students from Asian immigrant families will have a harder time getting into Boston’s exam schools under a new plan that’s supposed to help disadvantaged students, writes Fordham’s Brandon Wright.
The old process gave equal weigh to grades and entrance exam scores. Now grades count for 70 percent and scores 30 percent, and applicants are sorted by census tracts, which are grouped into eight tiers.
“It’s likely to significantly reduce the number of seats that go to low-income Asian American students,” Wright predicts.”
Take, for example, the city’s Chinatown. . . . Its median household income is less than $41,000—well below the Boston median, and less than half that of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, like Back Bay and Beacon Hill.
. . . according to the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence, the neighborhood’s representation in the exams schools may be cut in halfunder the new plan.
“Boston, New York City and other communities have neighborhoods with low-income, high-scoring Asian immigrant students whose existence is ignored by “equity” advocates, he writes.
The Boston Globe writes: “For decades, white and Asian students have been admitted to the highly sought after schools at disproportionately higher rates than their Black and Latino peers, and civil rights advocates have long argued that families with means often game the system by using private tutors and admission consultants.”
“The families of Chinatown don’t have “means,” Wright writes. Their kids study harder.”
American flag? Check. Cheap plastic raincoats? Check. No Canda Goose parkas? They’re outta here.
