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Monday, October 1, 2012

'Life isn't always fair', Mayor Bloomberg says of NAACP suit that claims blacks and Latinos are shut out of top city high schools - NY Daily News

'Life isn't always fair', Mayor Bloomberg says of NAACP suit that claims blacks and Latinos are shut out of top city high schools - NY Daily News:


'Life isn't always fair', Mayor Bloomberg says of NAACP suit that claims blacks and Latinos are shut out of top city high schools

He insists tough entry test is fair and that if some can afford tutors and some can't, well, too bad

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 Mayor Mike Bloomberg (c.) announced plans to build the World's Tallest Ferris Wheel in Staten Island in 2014 to be named The Wheel. Here with Staten Island borough president James Molinaro (R.) and Seth Pinsky (L.). I will be built next to the Baseball stadium on Bay street on what is now a parking lot for Staten Island Ferry riders.Thursday September 27, 2012 (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News photo)

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Mayor Bloomberg said he has no interest in changing the admissions process to the best city high schools, insisting, 'It's done strictly on merit and it's one of the bright lights in our school system.'

GIVING A LESSON about a cruel world, Mayor Bloomberg showed zero sympathy for minority children who are denied entry to the city’s elite high schools.
“Life isn’t always fair,” he snapped on Thursday when asked about an NAACP complaint that slams the schools for admitting few black or Latino students.
He insisted that the entrance process is perfectly fine: Students with the best scores get invited to learn at the top schools.
“We’re not here about equal results. We’re here about equal opportunity,” he said. “Look, an awful


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