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From: Csubstance@aol.com [mailto:Csubstance@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:24 PM
To: ArthurH@tangis.com
Subject: Re: RE: RE: Chicago tests: on paper and on the streets






In a message dated 5/9/00 1:07:48 PM, ArthurH@tangis.com writes:


<< Are these [Whitney Young] kids really 
that good? If you take the top 1% of Chicago, do you get cream?
 >>


Depending upon how you determine the "top one percent" -- Yes. Will Tanzman, 
leader of the Organized Students of Chicago, just became a National Merit 
Scholarship Finalist. He's the one who thought up the protests against the 
ISAT and CASE tests. (HereticUU @ aol.com).


Whitney Young is also one of the top schools in Illinois (if not the top) by 
any measure (including sports, extra curricular, and, now, "service").


Part of my analysis of the new trends under our politically corrupt Daley 
administration version of "school reform" is that the reason the current 
administration is trying to detroy Whitney Young (by creating six "academic 
magnet high schools" in six zones of the city) is that they can't stand the 
idea that Chicago's best high school consists mostly of Asian, Black and 
Latino kids. The white guys currently running the city have a very hard time 
with intelligent people (especially males) who are obviously smater than they 
are in verbal and math ability and also not white. It's an old Chicago thing. 
 


(Demographic Data for Whitney Young from October 1997 are as follows: 


Total students, 2,240; 
White: 479 (21.4 percent); 
Black: 1057 (47.2 percent); 
Native American: 10 (0.4 percent); 
Asian/Pacific Islander: 367 (16.4 percent); Hispanic: 
327 (14.6 percent, majority Mexican). 


Things haven't changed that much since 1997, but the school board is refusing 
to publish the data or put it out under FOIA requests.


George Schmidt