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The neoleftist removal of merit-based admission at magnet schools throughout our country, and replacement with race-based admission, has confirmed what we have all been thinking — we are living through a civilizational decline.
For parents who cannot afford private school, their intelligent children will be lost in public schools, their intelligence ignored, wasted.
For kids who did not earn admission but received it anyway, their spoiled sense of arbitrary entitlement will grow. A declining society.
For kids who did not earn admission but received it anyway, their spoiled sense of arbitrary entitlement will grow. A declining society.
Future scientists, doctors, lawyers, theorists, won’t have the opportunity to meet like-minds to grow and develop their intelligence. Instead, they will be lost somewhere in a corner of a public school, feeling lonely and unseen.
Wealthier families will continue sending their children to private schools. It is only the poor and the middle class children that will be lost to the loss of our magnet schools. It is their American dream that will be crushed.
I was one of those kids once. I was a kid from a poor immigrant family that worked my way into a magnet school, which introduced me to like-minded kids & opened doors for me based on my qualifications. So here I am, contributing to society, but it all started at a magnet school.
The high school I was zoned for was in a bad neighborhood. Bad kids. Metal detectors. I would have spent my high school career on guard, worried, bored. The magnet school was safe, challenging. Gave me freedom to grow my mind. It was for kids who wanted to learn.
Magnet schools are meant to harvest youth intelligence, an investment in our intellectual future. We wanted kids to compete, to do their best. But b/c the result showed that some races underrepresented, decisions to recolor reality were made.
Kids on the front lines, as always.
Kids on the front lines, as always.
That magnet school gave me the start I needed. A start I earned. I started I worked for. I am who I am because of that school — from the work I began in that school. It was not my physical presence there; what I learned there, what I earned there is what gave me liftoff.
I didn’t just show up.
The idea that race-based admission will yield for some kid the result I achieved because we show up in the same building is preposterous. Opportunity to go to the school isn’t what got me here. It’s what I did with my opportunity.
The idea that race-based admission will yield for some kid the result I achieved because we show up in the same building is preposterous. Opportunity to go to the school isn’t what got me here. It’s what I did with my opportunity.
But the magnet school didn’t start my journey. When it’s merit-based admission, it means you’ve already started your journey beforehand and are working towards a goal. Race-based admission ignores all of this entirely. As if that start is negligible. It’s not. Start is key 
I didn’t grow up speaking English. I came to this country knowing not a word. I learned the language here in the US. I worked hard. I earned my way into that school with my English grades just as much as my math grades. (Language matters more in the US than does math, BTW).
I wasn’t privileged with my poverty. I wasn’t privileged not knowing the language. My privilege was the American Dream. My privilege was work ethic. My privilege was having parents who loved me. That’s life. Some things are wonderful luck, others are thorny obstacles. Life.
We had at least a few black kids in the class, all whom equally earned they way into that school. We were all friends, skin color was never an issue for anyone. No one left out. No one judged.
What will happen to such friendships when some kids don’t have to earn their way in?
What will happen to such friendships when some kids don’t have to earn their way in?
