Weep For Beverly Hills High School: UPDATE
I recently discussed (here) the sad fact that Beverly Hills High School, now barred by Prop. 209 from fishing a few blacks and Hispanics out of the neighboring Los Angeles schools so that its white students could be exposed to diversified by them, now had to settle for the fact that most of those with “diversity permits” to transfer in are “high-performing, smart, well rounded students,” primarily Asian.
The Los Angeles Times thinks this is a shame, and proposes a new definition of equalty and a new standard against which to measure claims of discrimination. I’ve added an UPDATE to my post discussing its recent editorial.
UPDATE [9 April]
If you looked for this UPDATE and didn’t see it, don’t worry about your vision. For some reason (no doubt user error), it wasn’t there. Now it is.
Say What?
Apropos your comments in the update about who contributes how much "diversity", I note in the original article that 450 students (20%) at BHHS are Persian , but they're counted as "white" for diversity purposes. So all the recent hoopla in LA about Beverly Hills having a Persian mayor (via rotation of the position among city council members) was misplaced? Just another white mayor for Beverly Hills.
Posted by: David | April 9, 2007 6:54 PM
John,
Let me do some number crunching for you . In 2005 there were 84 Asian, 35 black, 13 Latino and 361 white graduates of Beverly Hills High School . Of these graduates 20 Asians, 2 blacks, 1 Latino and 37 whites enrolled in the University of California. Do the ratios of enrollees to the University of California versus graduates by race and you will find something interesting.Does the Los Angeles Times editorial board want or don't want Asians to enroll at BHHS even though they are the biggest producers of BHHS graduates for the University of California in terms of percentage ?
Maybe we should turn BHHS into a public exam high school like Lowell , Bronx Science or Stuyvesant. That will mean even fewer white students attending Beverly Hills High School and that will surely make the wealthy parents of Beverly HIlls howling mad with anger. The data that I qouted above came from the California PostSecondary Education Commission.
Posted by: leo cruz | April 10, 2007 4:44 AM
David and Leo - Both very good points! Here's another thought: if the poor (though rich) whites of Beverly Hills believe their civil rights are undermined by the lack of "divresity" at BHHS, surely they have enough influence to go to the state legislature or the Los Angeles County government or wherever and have the school district lines redrawn in such a way as to include more students who now attend Los Angeles Unified schools.
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April 10, 2007 7:35 AM