SMH, you fucking disgust me.
What exactly does being from a ‘migrant’ background have ANYTHING to do with selective schools? “Top school’s secret weapon” - WTF, does James Ruse bring on its little asian kids when it comes to the HSC now? NO, it’s called a fucking selective test. Pass it, and you get in. What background you have has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING, why don’t you ask why ‘white’ Australians are lagging behind, as opposed to why ‘migrant’ children have some sort of ‘advantage’? Thanks for another meaningless attack on NESB families. As if Today Tonight doesn’t give us enough flak. (Not to mention, why exactly do ‘white’ Australians not count as migrants? Learn some Australian history, you fucking bigots.)
“He said selective schools were not providing assistance to the vast majority of families.” Yes. They’re called ‘selective schools’ for a reason. Also, what does vast majority of families have to do with migrant families?
”In NSW we are entrenching advantage within one particular ethnic group.” How exactly is anyone entrenching any advantages? Do Asian families get educational assistance? No. It’s called learning. Everyone has the same opportunities, you get the same options of studying or mucking up, if you choose to muck up, that doesn’t mean Asians are getting an advantage. That’s your own problem. It’s like blaming people for being rich.
“pooling of high achievers in selective and private school systems had raised the performance bar beyond the reach of students in mainstream schools.” Um hello. That’s the point of having a selective school. So gifted students don’t have to be stuck with slow classmates.
“It is a zero-sum game: some win, but others must lose.” Yep. Way to target asians as unfairly ‘winning’ from an ‘unfair’ system. Don’t we all love a sensational article?
If you’re going to bitch, bitch about the selective school system itself. Migrants are not abusing the system.
This is so fucked up it’s not funny. I read this as soon as I got the paper this morning. Wow, even the Daily Telegraph rarely stoops this low.
/rant.