今天悉尼晨报头版头条：精英中学的秘密武器 - 95%的学生乃移民之后
文章指出：精英中学成了亚裔中学了，中国小孩尤其多，很大原因是这些小孩来自于重视教育的亚裔家庭。
Monash大学的Bob说这非常的不公平。言下之意是中国小孩，不管你学习有多么刻苦，成绩有多么高，请靠边站，因为你等是人口的少数，也应该是精英中学的少数，这才符合公平的标准。精英中学不能实行优胜劣汰制，应该按种族的人口比例，规划入学。应该实行面试制，看看长相，择优入学，皮肤不白少进，录取与否与考分脱钩。
如果将来大学有这样失衡的现象，也应一并处理。
全文如下：
Top school's secret weapon: 95% of students of migrant heritage
Anna Patty and Andrew Stevenson
September 13, 2010
The best performing school in the state, James Ruse Agricultural High School, is also the selective school with the most students from a migrant background.
New figures obtained under freedom of information laws show that 95.2 per cent of students list a language background other than English in their entry application.
Only 41 students from an English-speaking background are studying at the school - an average of seven in each year.
Children of migrants fill almost 80 per cent of the places offered at the state's top 10 selective high schools, which are all ranked in the top 20 HSC performers.
On average only 20 per cent (or 320 students each year) are from an English-speaking background.
The dominant cultural group is Chinese, with the most applicants and the highest success rate in the entry test. Last year, 2361 applicants were from a Chinese background and 1242 were successful.
The second most represented group was Vietnamese followed by Korean. In total, 3912 students were awarded a selective school place last year, with 5516 applicants from a non-English speaking background - 42 per cent (1828) of whom were successful.
The co-director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University, Bob Birrell, said the successful students largely represented middle- to upper-middle-class families from Asia who put a heavy emphasis on education and professional achievement.
He said selective schools were not providing assistance to the vast majority of families. ''In NSW we are entrenching advantage within one particular ethnic group. If the NSW government was serious about equal opportunity, it would put some geographical boundaries to ensure better access to [top] schools.
A specialist in schools systems from the University of Melbourne, Richard Teese, said that the pooling of high achievers in selective and private school systems had raised the performance bar beyond the reach of students in mainstream schools.
''When you pool resources like that you multiply their impact and you give the students who have access to that distinctive advantages over everybody else,'' Professor Teese said.
''You are setting up a situation in which you [create] extremes of advantage and extremes of disadvantage. If you took those students out of those hot-house environments they would still do well. But by combining their resources you multiply their advantage. It is a zero-sum game: some win, but others must lose.
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