Neighborhood schools also have great imbalance in who takes AP classes. Since 1995 I fought to get more African American students into AP calculus classes. To this day, they are still not a presence or a single entity in the class. The administration claims to care but nothing is ever done to improve the situation.
noryeln
Surprise…drum roll please…there is also research on the over-representation of children of color in public school special education classes and the over representation of Caucasian students in private schools for children with special needs.
Please tell me…..yet again…..why race isn’t destiny in this City.
And pps….this disqus thing is a real pain
Tim_Parent
At 70 white + Asian / Black + Hispanic + uncateorized, G&T programs are considerably better integrated than the most sought-after high-performing gen ed schools south of 96th St, or in Districts 15 and 26. They’re better integrated than all but a tiny handful of suburban districts. They may not be quite as well integrated as the elite private schools, but I have a hard time attaching the word “diverse” to a sector where 80% of the kids have parents who can afford to pay $40,000 (and rising) post tax, per year, per child, for 13 years.
The repeated inability or unwillingness of the Times, WSJ, et al to contextualize the G&T issue confuses me. Or maybe it shouldn’t, given that most of their readers (and employees) live in Manhattan south of 96th St, brownstone Brooklyn, and the suburbs, and/or send their kids to elite private schools.
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