Unlike some other areas, the Stuyvesant population is not full of rich upper middle class students, some 60% and more students are on free and reduced lunch. Just because the demographics are not proportional to the student population at large, doesn't mean the admission is somehow unfair. Why are all these politicians not tackle the real issue? Everything is about optics.

Our local magnet program is going through the same changes. Let's see how long they can maintain their once stellar reputation if they continue. So far they have stayed away from high school, may be they realized not everyone is cut out to do the rigorous program, but maybe they are too foolish to know that and simply just haven't got to it yet.