The New York Post has an article today which outlines the problems with race based admissions in our school system, and affirmative action as a whole. Quotas which were initially instituted to help minorities gain admission into top notch schools, in recent times have had the reverse effect. The number of minorities in this country have been increasing dramatically over the last decade with no signs of slowing down, consequently schools that have quotas which set aside a certain percentage of desks for minority students are running into admission problems.

According to the Post article:

It turns out Mark Twain (a magnet school for gifted students) - unlike all but one other city public school - admits students according to racial quotas established in 1974 by a federal judge who ordered the school’s desegregation.

Under those quotas - which originally were intended to boost minority enrollment - 60 percent of Mark Twain’s student body is set aside for white students, while 40 percent is set aside for minorities.

As a result, Nikita Rau was denied entry into the school because she is a minority, although she scored higher on the entrance exam than white students who were accepted. Supporters of affirmative action will argue all that needs to be done to correct this problem is for the federal court to abolish the outdated quota system established 30 years ago. As Nikita Rau and her family are now learning however, racial preferences can be harfmul in any form.

Liberals will push for a quick fix to this problem so students like Nikita will no longer be negatively affected by racial preferences. At the same time they will ignore white and asian students who deal with this problem on an annual basis, watching their application being passed over in favor of someone with lower test scores, but the right color skin.

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Education, Racism, Supreme Court