I won’t list all the ways that life is not fair.
Yes, students with more money have many advantages. But that’s not the whole story. Just about everyone, of all income levels except for the very highest, has to make choices of how to spend their money, and allocate accordingly.
Take two families making $80K, or pick a number. Let’s look at one simple scenario…Family 1 has a mortgage that requires 30% of their income, Family 2 mortgage is 15% of their income. The second family spends that extra money on music lessons, sports lessons, ACT tutoring, whatever.
Seems wise, not unfair.
Stuy is 75% Asian, and yes, the students have access to opportunities they might not have had. But, I for one don’t think Stuy, and its admission process, should be used as a well considered example, or template for other cities to emulate. To me it’s a model that has led to test prep gone awry, and the ever present unintended consequences.