New York City Public Schools Discriminate Against White Kids

White kids are a small minority in New York City public schools. But unlike other minorities, they don’t get any special privileges. They aren’t even protected from systematic discrimination:

A diversity drive is spreading across the city as 78 schools in 14 of the city’s 32 community districts now boast plans that will give admission priority to predominantly black and Hispanic kids — and more schools will soon follow…

“I cannot think of any other time where there have been such efforts to try to alter the racial or ethnic makeup of New York City schools,” said Stephan Brumberg, a professor emeritus of education history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Anyone who was wondering if liberals will let up on whites after they have succeeded in their stated ambition of making whites a minority has a clear answer from liberal-run NYC schools, where white kids are already a shrinking minority.

Citywide, the current racial breakdown of NYC’s public-school students is 41 percent Hispanic, 26 percent black, 16 percent Asian, 15 percent white, and 2 percent “mixed.”

Being of a race other than white isn’t the only way to get into preferred schools:

Last year, 49 schools were on board the city Department of Education’s “Diversity in Admissions” pilot initiative, offering a variety of pre-K to high-school seats to English-language learners and kids from low-income families, in the child-welfare system, or with parents in jail.

In an upside-down world ruled by liberals, low grades and low test scores are also advantages:

Within two months on the job, [schools Chancellor Richard] Carranza green-lighted a controversial plan in District 3 on the Upper West Side to reserve 25 percent of seats in 16 middle schools for low-income students with low test scores and grades. Carranza fueled the fire when he retweeted a news headline that blasted “white, wealthy parents” who were angry that their kids might be shut out of the best schools.

His war on white children is just warming up.

Carranza is now poised to approve a far more ambitious plan that has divided parents in Brooklyn’s District 15, including affluent neighborhoods like Park Slope. It will eliminate all academic-based admission criteria at 16 middle schools — and reserve 52 percent of seats for low-income, English-learning and homeless applicants.

White parents have the options of home schooling, outlandishly expensive private schools, and getting the hell out of the rotting moonbat dystopia that is New York City. The latter may seem the most obvious option, but there is a danger that Democrats will succeed in turning the whole country into New York City.

On a tip from Sean C.

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