Posted on 03/07/2013 3:11:25 PM PST by SMGFan
It’s an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
That’s a rhetorical question I presume. If you have any doubt, just recall the teacher organized mass cheating on competency tests in Atlanta a few years back.
“80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read”
Of the 20% that can read, what % are white or asian?
I was taught phonics as a child, but I forgot most of what I’d learned over the years. As an adult, when I began homeschooling my own children, I relearned phonics and my own spelling, grammar and reading improved.
Go back, young man! Go through first grade phonics again. It’ll take you 30 minutes a day for a few months to see it again. Your world will open up.
Use Saxon. You’ll be amazed at how much sense there is in the English language.
As of 2012, the NYC school district spent $18,750 per student. In a class of 30 students, the total take is $562,500. What happens to all that money? It certainly isn’t producing much in the way of education, but the free baby-sitting and free food does come in handy.
New York is thinking about a longer school day and a longer school year. Yeah, like that’s going to do a lot of good.
You have pointed out a huge disconnect in the stats.
I understand most children born are non-white, but it’s still perplexing.
However, AVOID Saxon Math. It is merely rote learning - no THINKING involved. I cannot tell you how many parents say to me, “My child has ALWAYS made A’s in Math.” These students can apply the algorithms, but they cannot apply that knowledge to solve real-life problems.
Public schools are perpetrating intellectual genocide.
The new "Bloomberg-bred" student knows that they basically don't have to do anything, and their teacher will be pressured to pass them. And if they DO receive their just grade, they openly threaten the teacher ("I'm a gonna get you fired, b__tch!") rather than amend their academic practices. Oh, HELL no!
They don't BELONG in college, clogging up the classrooms there and taking remedial courses which simply repeat their failed high school work at a much higher cost to the taxpayers.
Cannot read? 80%? No. Simply not the case.
There's a definite point to be made and concerns to be addressed, but that headline is misleading, dishonest or just bogus. Pick one. But only if you read this far.
I have an idea where the money ends up.
Recently my local news did a segment on some kind of consultant who was making the rounds of all the schools, to talk to teachers and find out what issues they had concerns with. He said the number one concern was EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION, followed by supplies.
It's all about the children, see. /s
Education was where Bloomturd wanted to make a difference!
That was before colleges became teacher-employment programs. Now, we have to get as many kids as we can in there so more "professors" can have jobs. Helps the economy, don'cha know [wink, wink].
Response: One glance explains why.
I was taught phonics a child and to this day I hear the word when I look at it.
Worse, I have gotten so old that I can’t remember what it was like to not be able to read...
Libs want to keep them dumb as possible so they will keep x-ing the rat box every November.
Actually the reason for having lots of high paid profs and admins is because they are excellent Democrat contributors.
Funneling borrowed money to them from student loans is what I call the “Big Education” cycle.
Where else they could get low information voters?
What’s reading have to do with public schools?
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