Talk about utterly missing the point.

Critics have spent recent months blasting Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña over the city’s “separate and unequal” education system, which tracks underprivileged minority kids into failed schools.

Now Fariña has responded with a citywide “diversity” push asking every principal to submit plans for enrolling a more diverse student body — either setting aside seats or increasing “recruitment” of underperforming and special-needs children.

OK, such plans might someday boost opportunity for a few kids. But they’ll still leave tens of thousands of children trapped in failure-factory schools.

Worse: As we noted Tuesday, Fariña & Co. are also looking to recruit more kids to enroll in “Renewal” schools — the worst ones in the city — in order to keep them open.

Meanwhile, she continues to (falsely) “explain away” the success of charter schools — which actually offer quality education to the underprivileged.

If the chancellor and Mayor de Blasio really wanted to give more children a chance at a top-notch school, they’d be boosting charters every chance they got.