The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again. In New York, the City Council is moving to get rid of tests for specialized schools because whites and Asians outperform blacks and Latinos. Remember, not too terribly long ago, we learned that Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a failing public school that spent $52,000 a year per student, only for Hannah-Jones’ daughter to be unable to write or do math.
Instead of holding that school accountable and demanding reform, the Left simply shrugged and decided to punish white and Asian students by dumbing down the specialized schools instead of elevating black and Latino students.
“But 70 percent of the kids who access the seats in the Discovery Program are white or asian,” he said. “So we’re not actually reaching into black and Latino communities, the folks who are being kept out of our specialized high schools. This isn’t always been like this … 20 years ago, 40 percent of kids in our specialized high schools were black and Latino. Today, it’s just 10 percent.”
And what’s changed in the last 20 years? Democrats constantly lowering the standards, introducing DEI and CRT into classrooms, and refusing to educate black and Latino students. Here in Wisconsin, Democrat Gov. Tony Evers even said that some students (read: black and Latino) will never learn to read, so we shouldn’t bother trying to teach them.
“Over 60 percent of the kids in our public school system are black and Latino,” he continued. “There are so many excellent students. They deserve access to our most prestigious flagship high schools.”