Just when you think Team de Blasio’s drive to destroy the city’s top high schools couldn’t get any crazier, the Mayor’s Office drops a YouTube agitprop video exploiting kids.

The 22-minute clip features an off-screen adult facilitator feeding leading questions to three current and two former city students, who obligingly take turns slamming the single-test admission setup as a demoralizing, mental health-damaging, soul-crushing instrument of racial segregation.

Particularly Stalinist is the use of a 12th-grader, Jade, who dutifully confesses, “I came from a pretty wealthy, predominantly white and Asian American neighborhood” where kids were pushed “to funnel our energy and our money towards prepping for this test.”

Left out of the picture is that even most “privileged” kids don’t get in — only the ones who show they’re prepared to do the work. Note, too, that most students at Stuyvesant HS, the most selective school of all, qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches, the opposite of a class-privilege system.

Shame on Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza for this exploitation and the ruthless effort to brand those who support the test as racist.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is just the most prominent minority city official to disagree with that. Indeed, the leaders of the state Legislature have refused to play along with de Blasio’s push to kill the test. Do the mayor and chancellor expect New Yorkers to believe that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins are racist, too?

The whole thing is just a cynical bid to avoid the real issue — the failure of so many regular public schools to prepare kids for the exam, and the shortage of top schools to provide slots for all the children who hope for a rigorous high school education.

No wonder 56% of New Yorkers disapprove of de Blasio’s handling of public education.

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