New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program
The inconvenient truth about NYC G&amp;T program is that it is 40% Asian. Asians have dominated the G&amp;T program, even &quot;stealing&quot; spots from white kids where 43% of NYC is white, but only 35% of spots taken by white kids.<p>And Asians are dominating the NYC G&amp;T program NOT because of hundreds of years of systemic racism, NOT because Asians wrote the admissions tests an inbueing cultural bias, and NOT by cheating or bribing admissions. And in NYC, Asians are the poorest demographic by a large margin. This makes the entire story extremely inconvenient for activists who want to say that the program is racist and discriminates against the economically disadvantaged. And yet, they somehow are able to get the entire program trashed because of racism against Asians is perfectly accepted in 2021.<p>Activists have no problems openly discriminating against Asians because whites, blacks and Latinos think of &quot;Americans&quot; as whites, blacks and Latinos. Asians are considered foreigners. So when a prestigious program is dominated by Asians, something must obviously wrong, right?<p>Activists have gutted admissions at Thomas Jefferson high school in Fairfax, VA, arguably the top public high school in the US because it had a high percentage of Asians. Lowell High school admissions in SF, a top 100 high school, underwent the exact same thing because of its high percentage of Asians. Now NYC is doing the same thing. At Harvard, the admissions department openly discriminates against Asians by saying they lack &quot;courage&quot; or less &quot;likeable&quot;. Imagine the outrage if this happened to Blacks, but because it happened to Asians it&#x27;s considered okay because Asians are unAmerican.