Wait. NYC IS run by self-superior, bigoted, racist Republicans who don't want to see people succeed in life, especially minorities, so they'll be dependent on Republicans' generosity with other people's money for the rest of their lives, isn't it?
Students who don’t want or care to perform. won’t, no matter what you do for them or to them.
Most kids who go to charter or private schools either want to learn or have concerned parents who want them to learn.
The media constantly says we need to have that big talk about race. Great idea! Let’s do. And inner city “failure factories” need to be topic #1.
But but but...DeBlasio improved the schools by introducing two new holidays to the school calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Test scores were supposed to rise after that - and if they didn’t that meant there were still too many white or Christian holidays that need to be eradicated.
Christmas is now “Winter Holiday,” Abe Lincoln and G. Washington have been downgraded to “President’s Day” (one day instead of two) and Easter is now “Spring Holiday.”
You mean to tell me this didn’t work to improve the schools?
I’m shocked...shocked...
The entire USA education system has been destroyed by liberals. There is very little education left in any school; K-12 or college.
NYC government schools are deliberately packed with minority “teechers” who can’t even read.
People should go to prison for that.
Reading these accounts of humans mistreating humans casts a dark pale of sin on those responsible. The calloused disregard for humanity begins in gestation so it is no big deal to treat innocent children worse than they treat their pets.
That the City doesn’t give full scholarships for as many kids to the Success Academies as want to attend is simply criminal.
And yes, this is Democrat-controlled criminality. (Though Eva M. herself is a Democrat with some regrettable excesses along the predictable party lines as well.)
Highly educated,freethinking people with free will and love of country would not vote Democrat and see that Liberalism is slavery. The schools have to be dysfunctional to build the union wealth and sowing a endless demographic of Democrat voter and welfare recipient.
Are these people white supremacists? They are tacitly saying that that having more white (or Asian) children are inherently better for a school. Sprinkle some magic white powder on your school and watch it thrive!
Failure factories are the inevitable consequence of edufacturing at all levels. All courtesy of government funding.
Education in NYC is a lot less bad than people make it out, and head and shoulders above any other large city’s system.
There are a significant number of good neighborhood zoned schools and a HUGE parallel system of parent-choice, charter schools, gifted-and-talented (and often test- or portfolio-selected). The public system has an effective annex in the relatively inexpensive Catholic school network and in the well-coordinated system of recruiting and scholarships for non-parochial private schools for the most talented poorer kids. (Admittedly, the latter is driven less by a desire to help poor kids than to increase the minority cohort in the independent schools, but there really aren’t any poor white kids left in NYC so it’s a distinction without much difference.)
The really terrible schools, like the ones pointed out in the article, are the dumping grounds for the least-engaged and -responsible parents and the most incorrigible of children. It’s sad to say, but concentrating them in those places actually makes the rest of the schools better.