{"id":4971,"date":"2008-01-15T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T01:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4971"},"modified":"2008-01-16T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T15:40:35","slug":"affirmative_act_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/affirmative_act_1\/","title":{"rendered":"An Affirmative Action Casualty (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s fascinating how topsy-turvy this case is<\/a>– <\/p>\n\n

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Barred by the color of her skin… And saddled with lofty expectations…<\/font><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table>January 14, 2008 — A year after the city’s racial quotas kept their daughter out of an elite public school, an Indian couple from Brooklyn is filing a class-action lawsuit to make sure it doesn’t happen again to her or any child.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Did racial preferences prevent a high scoring Indian kid from getting into a school that other, lower scoring, kids did? Well yes, but this time around, the lower-scoring “others” were white – <\/p>\n\n

For decades, the school has enforced racial double standards on its tests to maintain a 6-4 white-to-minority ratio to comply with a 1974 federal court desegregation order. \n

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…Officials said Nikita, who is considered a member of a minority group, had to score at least 84.4 score to be accepted. But white students needed to score only 77.<\/blockquote>\n\n

And young Nikita? She only pulled down a 79 – much to the delight, I’m sure, of the uber-competitive desi moms down the street. Her dad channels MLK for us – <\/p>\n\n

“Children should be judged on the content of their character, not on the color of their skin,” said Dr. Anjan Rau, the girl’s dad, about the quotas at Mark Twain School in Coney Island.<\/blockquote>\n\n

In a different report<\/a>, I loved how dad keeps his eye on the prize – <\/p>\n\n

“It could hurt her chances of going to Harvard, Yale or Princeton.”<\/blockquote>\n\n

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\n\nUPDATE<\/strong>: Case closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 16, 2008…The Department of Education announced Monday that it’s asking a federal judge to lift a 1974 court order imposing a rigid quota system on Coney Island’s selective Mark Twain School.<\/p>\n

The announcement came just hours after the Center for Individual Rights filed suit against the DOE on behalf of Nikita Rau, the 11-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants whose application the school rejected because it had already reached its pre-designated allotment of non-white students. <\/blockquote>\n

Now young Nikita needs to start SAT-cramming <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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