All they managed to do is create a mountain of debt we cannot pay back.
Now their new plan to create equality is to drag everyone else down to the lowest common denominator.
Posted on 04/27/2018 11:00:09 AM PDT by C19fan
A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high-achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.
The Department of Education has proposed one scenario in which most middle schools in District 3 would give priority, for up to 25% of their seats, to applicants who had fourth-grade scores below grade level on state tests of reading and math.
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They can always do what my school did in the early 60s: create a “dumb row.”
Diversity is just a made up word for reverse discrimination against White males of the USA.
My internal alarms start sounding the moment I hear/read the phrase “diversity plan”.
25% of seats is a lot. Sounds like busing.
The leftist plan: Dumb down everybody for ‘equality.’
Liberals claim to love n***ers but they don’t want them in their schools.
Diversity’s for others, stupid.
Most of these parents voted for Hillary. I say allot another 25% of the slots for the children in the caravan on the southern border and Syrian refugees.
Harrison Bergeron.
I wonder what changed.
Oh, wait, this particular manifestation of "bussing" will directly affect them and their children, not just the ignorant peasants, red-necks and hillbillies in "flyover country".
Desegregation is for those deplorable rednecks in the suburbs. Not for us! /s
Typical Liberal response. Diversity is cool, until you have to live with the consequences of your own policies.
Yup. Mahattan is rich, liberal and Democrat.
They are for integration and equality. Just not in Manhattan.
Ha ha ha!
If Samantha Bee’s children can’t get a first rate segregated education at public expense, the terrorists will have won.
All they managed to do is create a mountain of debt we cannot pay back.
Now their new plan to create equality is to drag everyone else down to the lowest common denominator.
Of course, once in the schools, they can’t be disciplined, because then that would show an imbalance in who gets discipline.
The low-performing kids don’t need other schools, they need better parents, with a father in the home.
Instead of “Diversity”, parents should be worried about things like:
English
History
Science
Physics
Math (without a calculator)
Cursive writing
Attendance
Discipline
Diversity = screw the hard working achievers by making them feel guilty over the failures.
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