TTSR Anti-“Elitism” In Education

The Stuyvesant high school in New York city, one that Thomas Sowell attended, stands out from most schools across the state, not because of its success and student academic achievement, but because it is so difficult to get into due to the tests one must pass even to be considered.

There has been much political pressure for this school to accept students that do not meet their requirements so that ‘everyone’ will be capable of attending such a prestigious high school, but little do those pushing for lower acceptability realize that even if their standards were lower, not everyone could attend, nor would Stuyvesant be the school it has strived to be since 1904 [http://www.stuy.edu/].

What separates a good school from a great school is how it weathers through the ideals of the politically correct, if it consents and is destroyed like Dunbar high school – out of which came the first black federal judge, the first black general, and over two dozen black military officers in WW2– that was changed forever by the agendas of others, or if a school pushes through no matter what the politically correct say.