[nobody9999]

When I attended Stuyvesant there were more than eight black students in my class. But that was many years ago, before the school moved down to FiDi.

The problem, IMNSHO, isn't Stuyvesant (or Bronx Science/Brooklyn Tech/etc.). The problem is that too many primary schools in NYC fail to adequately prepare their students for secondary education.

No old white guy sits around accepting/rejecting applications for the Specialized High Schools. Rather, it's the cold, hard numbers from the Specialized High School Admissions Test[0].

That so few black students are admitted is an clear indictment of the NYC public schools' level of segregation and lack of preparation for secondary school in predominantly black neighborhoods.

This isn't just poor quality education/lesser quality teachers in many schools, but also a lack of participation from parents/communities forcing the schools to be more rigorous.

It's disgusting, and as I mentioned, we're doing worse WRT primary education for poor folks than we were in the 1970s and 1980s. For shame NYC! For shame!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_High_Schools_Admis...