At magnet school, Asian plurality

[Stretch]

Interesting article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070602343.html) on the Washington Post about the high school I went to.

Brief summary: 2,500 students apply every year for 458 spots at the high school that's been rated #1 in the country by Newsweek. The % of 'under-represented' minorities has dwindled to low single digits in the last few years, which scares the powers above.

Amazing that people think going to a good high school will suddenly make their kid a star. Good teachers only go so far; a pretty large chunk depends on the kids and parents, regardless of race.

[Stanley Burrell]

Bronx. Science. High School.

[radamanthys]

wat

[Stanley Burrell]

The Bronx High School of Science is China. It's the best High School in The United States (fuck you, Stuyvesant and Bk Tech) and it's made out of Chinese people.

And no one knows what I'm talking about. But Bronx Science is where we got the word "azn" from. It was in relation to Asian Edaarin's article -- Hardly a new trend for the three most prestigious schools in the American continent, where Asians of the Orient outnumber Caucasoids...

Edit - How the fuck do you say "Oriental" non-derogatorily? Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Asians who aren't Semitic or Indian in phenotypical expression? Dammit.

[radamanthys]

East Asians?

That's a great sociological example of how America is just about cooked. There's over a billion across the pacific with this kinda work ethic? Sounds like by the time I'm 30, the stock market's gonna be in Chinese currency.

[Stanley Burrell]

It'll be cooked in a wok and taste like fried dumpling, tho.

http://kungfu-artistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/master-po.jpg

[radamanthys]

Gyoza flavored future. I like.

No MSG, tho.

[Daniel]

Amazing that people think going to a good high school will suddenly make their kid a star.

When you're talking lower tier high schools, this is definitely not true.

I know you've read savage inequality, or at least told someone you did.